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ArvinMeritor Opens New Exhaust Systems Headquarters and Tech Center

28 August 2000

ArvinMeritor, Inc. Opens New Exhaust Systems Headquarters and Tech Center ARVINMERITOR RIBBON CUTTING ArvinMeritor Vice Chairman and President Bill Hunt (fourth from right) and local dignitaries cut the ribbon today to officially open the company's new Exhaust Systems headquarters and engineering facility. (PRNewsFoto)[PM] TROY, MI USA 08/25/2000    

    TROY, Mich., Aug. 25 ArvinMeritor, Inc., today
officially opened a state-of-the-art, 60,000-square-foot Exhaust Systems
Headquarters and Engineering Facility in its Columbus Technology Center in
Columbus, Ind.
    (Photo:  http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000825/DEF025 )
    With 120 employees at the new facility, ArvinMeritor's Columbus Technical
Center has nearly 300 employees in total and will be dedicated to perfecting
and fine-tuning the company's advanced technologies in transportation
emissions, acoustics and predictive systems, according to Bill Hunt, president
and vice chairman, ArvinMeritor.
    "This new ArvinMeritor facility is an optimal environment for managers,
administrators and engineers to continue to create cost-effective, high-
quality solutions to our customers' air management needs," Hunt said.  "We
feel extremely confident that as part of the new ArvinMeritor, this facility
will be brick-and-mortar evidence that we will continue to find new
opportunities to apply our innovative exhaust technology to a broader range of
vehicle components and systems."
    At today's ribbon-cutting ceremony, Hunt told local dignitaries -- which
included Columbus Mayor Fred Armstrong, Congressman David McIntosh, Senator
Richard Lugar and a representative of Senator Evan Bayh -- the new facility
signifies ArvinMeritor's intent to maintain a significant presence in the area
to service the community and customers while providing advanced technologies
for a global economy.