Federal-Mogul
| Federal-Mogul Holdings LLC
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| legal form | LLC |
| founding | 1924 |
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Southfield , United States
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| management | Rainer Jückstock Daniel A. Ninivaggi ( CEOs ) |
| Number of employees | 53,000 |
| sales | $ 7.434 billion |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.federalmogul.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Federal-Mogul ( FM ) is a global automotive supplier headquartered in Southfield , Michigan (near Detroit ). The company consists of two independent business units, each with a Chief Executive Officer, and employs around 53,000 people worldwide.
Federal-Mogul Powertrain manufactures OEM components for the powertrain and system safety products for automotive, commercial vehicle, industrial and transportation applications.
Federal-Mogul Motorparts supplies a broad product portfolio with more than 20 world-famous brands (including Jurid , Ferodo , Champion , Nüral , Glyco and MOOG ) to the global vehicle aftermarket and also supplies manufacturers from the OEM sector with products such as brake pads and chassis parts and wipers .
history
The company was formed in 1923 from the merger of Muzzy-Lyon , Federal Bearing and Bushing and Douglas-Dahlin .
- In 1955, Federal-Mogul merged with Bower Roller Bearing .
- In 1985 the company bought the automotive supplier Mather .
- In 1990 Glyco Metall , the largest manufacturer of plain bearings in Germany, was bought up.
- In 1998, Cooper Industries acquired its automotive division. In the same year the subsidiary Glacier Vandervell Bearings was sold to the Dana Corporation .
- In 1999 they fought a bidding war with TRW Inc. for the automotive supplier LucasVarity , in which they were outbid by TRW.
- In 2001 the company had to apply for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- As of October 1, 2018, Federal-Mogul was fully taken over by Tenneco . The Motorparts division merged with Tenneco Aftermarket and Ride Performance into the Tenneco after market / ride performance Company. Tenneco Clean Air and FM Powertrain have since formed the new Tenneco new powertrain technology company.
Subsidiary in Germany
In Germany, following takeovers in the 1990s, the Goetze group , which can be traced back to Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze (1856-1924) in Burscheid , Dresden , Friedberg / Bavaria ( piston rings , drive gaskets , cylinder liners ) and Herdorf (cylinder head gaskets and heat shields), Glyco Metall- Works in Wiesbaden ( plain bearings and bushings ), Federal-Mogul Deva (maintenance-free high-performance plain bearings) in Stadtallendorf / Hessen and Alcan / Nüral ( pistons ) in Nuremberg for Federal-Mogul.
Since 2012, a spark plug plant in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz , the brake lining plant in Glinde , which formerly belonged to Honeywell, and the motor valve plants in Barsinghausen, Beckedorf and Blumberg, which formerly belonged to TRW, have been added.
Today's Federal-Mogul Nürnberg GmbH in Nuremberg (founded in 1924 as Nüral , later Alcan ) produces pistons for vehicle manufacturers such as B. VW , MAN Nutzfahrzeuge , Daimler AG or BMW . Pistons for diesel vehicles are primarily developed and produced. In addition, Nuremberg is the seat of the technology center for piston production.
Federal-Mogul Wiesbaden GmbH in Wiesbaden-Schierstein (founded in 1897 by Max Wagner as Glyco-Metall-Gesellschaft mbH, later Glyco Metall-Werke Daelen & Loos GmbH or Daelen & Hofmann KG) was acquired in 1990 by Federal-Mogul, one after the other the shareholder families Daelen and Hofmann sold their shares in Federal-Mogul. In Wiesbaden plain bearings, bushings and thrust washers for are automobile - engines and industrial applications manufactured. Semi-finished products are also manufactured and marketed, such as B. Bronze cast flat strip steels for plain bearing production. The Wiesbaden plant employs around 1,600 people and is the headquarters of the global technology center for plain bearings.
Federal-Mogul Deva GmbH was founded in 1936 in Staßfurt / Saxony-Anhalt as Deventer-Werke. The founder's idea was to meet the growing need for unlubricated seals by developing a "solid material with solid lubricants". The first products manufactured were graphitized seals.
Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH in Burscheid (formerly Goetze AG) produces piston rings with around 1,800 employees; The global technology center for piston rings is also located in Burscheid. Further locations of the piston ring group in Germany are Dresden and Friedberg (here also production of cylinder liners and face seals).
In 2012, after the takeover of Beru AG from BorgWarner, the spark plug plant in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz / Thuringia was integrated into the group as Federal-Mogul Ignition GmbH. The product portfolio includes a total of 250 different spark plugs, ignition electrodes and ceramic parts. As one of the few manufacturers, the plant produces all of its electrodes in-house. In addition, the approximately 200 employees also manufacture caps and runners for the spare parts business.
With the takeover of Honeywell Friction in 2014, Federal-Mogul Bremsbelag GmbH in Glinde became part of the Federal-Mogul Group. The approximately 950 employees at the site manufacture brake pads under the Jurid brand .
In spring 2015, Federal-Mogul took over the Engine Valve division from TRW Automotive with the German plants in Barsinghausen, Beckedorf and Blumberg (Federal-Mogul Valvetrain GmbH). Around 1,350 employees work here.
Innovations
In 2016 Federal-Mogul presented several innovations: a piston with an integrated cooling liquid made from high-temperature oil and noble gas, a coating with an increased diamond content for piston rings and stronger cylinder liners made of cast iron.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Corporate Leaders
- ↑ a b Form 10-K 2016
- ↑ Toledo Blade, May 16, 1985: Federal-Mogul To Buy Mather Co.
- ↑ Reading Eagle, August 27, 1998: Boyertownn plant to be sold
- ^ New York Times, January 29, 1999: TRW, Outbidding Federal-Mogul, to Buy Lucas Varity of Britain
- ↑ Ludington Daily News, October 1, 2001: Federal-Mogul to seek bankruptcy protection
- ^ Post Meridian: Our Journeys Start Now. September 27, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Federal-Mogul: Location information Burscheid ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated December 9, 2008
- ↑ Commercial vehicle diesel: Optimizing in detail. In: automotive industry. August 2, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
