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Information on Tenneco Automotive

Tenneco bought out controling interest of Monroe in 1997 and now controls 74.9% of this joint venture. Tenneco Automotive is a 3.4 billion dollar USA based international company. (Based at Lake Forest, Illinois) Two of the divisions Tenneco owns are ride control (Monore & Monroe) and Emission control (Walker , Gillet, Fonos) Handle Original Equipment(OE) and Aftermarket(AM). Monroe supplies the shocks for more than 80% of all locally manufactured vehicles. Tenneco Automotive is the worlds largest manufacturer of ride control products, producing 175 000 shock absorbers per day & has 6 factries in Europe & Africa alone! Africa reports to Europe whose head office is in Brussels Belgium. The main European warehouse is in st Truiden Belgium and holds stock of about 2 million shocks at any one time! Tenneco Automotive's ride control division has a staff of over 7000 of which about 130 are research and development ensuring they remain the leaders.