Accuride Announces Sale of Assets at Imperial Group's Anniston Facility

EVANSVILLE, Ind. January 2, 2009: Today, Accuride Corporation (OTCBB: AURD) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Imperial Group, L.P., has sold the assets at its Anniston, Alabama, facility to North American Bus Industries, Inc. (NABI), the sole customer for products manufactured at that facility.

Prior to the asset sale, Imperial Group had produced bus frames and certain components related to the bus frames for NABI out of that facility, as well as supplying bus chassis and other components to NABI out of Imperial’s Portland, Tennessee, facility. Imperial Group will continue to supply bus chassis and other components to NABI from its Portland, Tennessee, facility.