American Axle & Manufacturing Receives Supplier of the Year Award from ZF Industries, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    DETROIT, May 22 American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings,
Inc. (AAM), which is traded as AXL on the NYSE, today announced that it
received the 2000 Supplier of the Year Award from the ZF Industries Axle
Division, Tuscaloosa, Ala.  The presentation was made during ZF's Annual
Supplier Conference, which this year was held at the Mercedes Training Center
in Vance, Ala.
    The award recognized the achievements of AAM's Tonawanda Forge and
Cheektowaga facilities in the areas of quality, delivery and purchasing
criteria.  AAM's Western New York-based facilities supply ZF with net-shaped
differential pinion and side gears for front and rear axle modules as well as
front stabilizer bar clamps for 100,000 vehicles produced in Alabama and
Europe.
    "Receiving this prestigious award from ZF is especially gratifying for
us," said Ronald J. Allman, AAM vice president, Manufacturing - Forging
Division.  "Only one supplier receives it annually, and to be selected the top
supplier in a group that includes several of our competitors is truly an
outstanding honor."
    According to Joseph P. Conroy, plant manager for AAM's Tonawanda Forge and
Cheektowaga facilities, the plants produced more than 800,000 net-shaped gears
for ZF in 2000.  The gears are forged at AAM's Tonawanda plant and machined at
the nearby Cheektowaga facility.
    ZF Group, the world's largest independent specialist for driveline and
chassis technology, is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany.  ZF Group
North American Operations is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
    AAM is a world leader in the manufacture, engineering, validation and
design of driveline systems, chassis systems and forged products for trucks,
buses, sport utility vehicles and passenger cars.  In addition to its 14
locations in the United States (in Michigan, New York and Ohio), AAM also has
offices and facilities in Brazil, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico and
Scotland.
    Certain statements contained in this press release which are not
historical facts contain forward-looking information with respect to the
Company's plans, projections or future performance, the occurrence of which
involves risk and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results
or plans to differ materially from those expected by the company which include
risk factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.

    For more information ...
    Media relations contact                    Investor relations contact
    Carrie L.P. Gray                           Robert A. Krause
    Director, Marketing & Corporate Relations  Vice President & Treasurer
    313-974-2598                               313-974-3074
    grayc@aam.com                              krauser@aam.com

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