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Borg-Warner Automotive Honors Fifteen Employees for Excellence and Innovation

13 July 1999

Borg-Warner Automotive Honors Fifteen Employees for Excellence and Innovation At Worldwide Leadership Meeting

    CHICAGO, July 12 -- Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.
honored fifteen employees for their contributions and creativity in the areas
of product development, operations excellence and customer excellence.  Each
of the company's five business groups, Air/Fluid Systems, Automatic
Transmission Systems, Morse TEC, Powertrain Systems, and Turbo Systems,
selected employees from various departments to receive the awards.  The
honorees (listed below), from BWA operations in the United States, Italy,
Germany, and Japan, were recognized at a dinner ceremony today during the
company's Worldwide Leadership Meeting in Ithaca, New York.
    "Creativity and innovation in solving problems and meeting the many
challenges of our rapidly changing industry is essential to powertrain product
leadership," said John F. Fiedler, chairman and chief executive officer of
Borg-Warner Automotive."  The individuals we are honoring tonight have
demonstrated exceptional creativity and useful innovation in the important
areas of product development, operations excellence and customer excellence.
These are the kind of achievements that will enable us to reach the goal of
doubling our size in the next several years."
    Chicago-based Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc. is a product leader in highly
engineered components and systems for vehicle powertrain applications
worldwide.  The company operates 54 manufacturing and technical facilities in
13 countries serving worldwide vehicle manufacturers.  Customers include Ford,
DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Toyota, Caterpillar, Navistar and VW.

       Recipients of The 1999 Borg-Warner Automotive Creativity Awards

    Product Development
    -- Thomas E. Braford, Jr., Principal Engineer, Automatic Transmission
        Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan

    -- Michelino Bestetti, Components Development and Design, Morse TEC,
        Arcore, Italy

    -- Enrico Zeccara, Senior Product Engineer, Morse TEC, Arcore, Italy

    -- Guiseppe Baddaria, Engineering Manager, Morse TEC, Arcore, Italy

    -- Dieter Klingel, Project Engineering Manager, Commercial Diesel Business
        Unit, Turbo Systems, Kirchheimbolanden, Germany

    -- Frank Pflueger, Engineer, Basic Development, Turbo Systems,
        Kirchheimbolanden, Germany


    Operations Excellence
    -- Timothy R. Weilbaker, Product Team Leader, Powertrain Systems, Livonia,
        Michigan

    -- Romeo Martinez, Manager, Supplier Development, Powertrain Systems,
        Muncie, Indiana

    -- Simon Spencer, Director, Manufacturing Engineering & Quality Assurance,
        Powertrain Systems, Muncie, Indiana

    -- Sandy Jaffe, Manufacturing Manager, Morse TEC, Ithaca, New York


    Customer Excellence
    -- Michael E. Padesky, Program Manager, Air/Fluid Systems, Warren,
        Michigan

    -- Robert S. Czarnowski, Program Manager, Air/Fluid Systems, Warren,
        Michigan

    -- Wayne R. Berger, Plant Manager, Air/Fluid Systems, Sallisaw, Oklahoma

    -- Scott Hanba, Customer Liaison Engineer, Automatic Transmission Systems,
        Troy, Michigan

    -- Naosumi Tada, Senior Engineer -- Development Group, Morse TEC,
        Nabari City, Japan