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Toyota Recognizes Timken for Quality, Value

7 April 2000

Toyota Recognizes Timken for Quality, Value THE TIMKEN COMPANY LOGO The Timken Company, Worldwide Leader in Bearings and Steel. (PRNewsFoto)[KC] CANTON, OH USA 10/12/1999    

    CANTON, Ohio, April 7 The Timken Company
recently received two awards from Toyota Motor Corporation for quality
performance and value improvement in 1999. Acknowledging Timken for its
product and service quality and cost reduction efforts, Toyota Motor
Corporation recognized Timken at its 2000 Toyota Supplier Convention in
February in Nagoya, Japan.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991012/TKRLOGO )
    Timken was one of nine overseas suppliers that received the Excellent
Import Award for Quality Performance. Toyota also awarded Timken the
Certification for Achievement in Import Value Improvement.
    "Once again, Toyota has recognized us for the value we bring through the
quality of our bearing products and services," said Brent J. Dorman, vice
president - Asia Pacific - The Timken Company. "Our dedication to meeting
customer needs globally via our worldwide quality audit and continuous
improvement programs ensures that our customers can rely on our product, no
matter where in the world it is manufactured."
    Timken supplies tapered roller bearings for wheel applications in Toyota
sport utility vehicles, light trucks, vans and passenger cars. Timken also
supplies Toyota differential bearings for manual transaxles. Toyota has
recognized Timken with quality awards seven times in the last eight years.
    "Toyota engineers have access to our global research and development
capabilities and experience," Mr. Dorman said. "To meet the design needs of
customers, including Toyota, throughout Asia, we opened a research facility in
Yokohama, Japan, in 1999 to complement our other research facilities in
England, India and the United States."
    The Timken Company ( http://www.timken.com ) is a leading
international manufacturer of highly engineered bearings and alloy steels with
operations in 24 countries. The company employs about 21,000 people worldwide
and reported 1999 sales of U.S. $2.5 billion.