Akebono Brake Industry

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. (曙ブレーキ工業, Akebono burēki kōgyō) is a Japanese manufacturer of components for automobiles, motorbikes, trains, and industrial machinery.

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
Native name
曙ブレーキ工業
TypePublic KK
TYO: 7238
ISINJP3108400007
IndustryAutomotive
Founded(27 January 1929 (1929-01-27))
FounderSanji Osame
Headquarters
Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo headquarters)
Hanyu City, Saitama (Ai-City headquarters)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Hisataka Nobumoto
(Chairman, President and CEO)
ProductsBrakes for vehicles, motorcycles, trains, industrial machinery
Revenue JPY 281.3 billion (FY 2015) (US$ 2.44 billion) (FY 2015)
Number of employees
9,238 (consolidated, as of March 2016)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

The company was founded by Sanji Osame in 1929 as Akebono Sekimen Kogyosho. Osame founded the company as response to the demand by the Japan Army Authority for ground transport and its first products were brake linings used by the government entity.[3] Today it is now a large company with a significant overseas presence and wide range of brake products for many applications.

Polestar 1 with Akebono brakes

Business locations

In addition to its headquarters in Hanyu, Saitama and Nihonbashi, it also has facilities in other locations in Japan, such as Fukushima. In the United States, it has facilities in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Columbia, South Carolina, Glasgow, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee. In China, it has plants in Guangzhou and Suzhou. In Indonesia and Vietnam, it has a partnership with Astra. In Europe, it has facilities in Arras and Gonesse in France, and also has a UK presence for its work with the McLaren Formula 1 team. Its main European facility is located in Central Europe - Slovak Republic, Trencin which is focused on production of high performance aluminium brake calipers

Motorsport
A McLaren MP4-22 Formula 1 car brake manufactured by Akebono

Beginning with the 2007 Formula One season Akebono has been a technology partner to the McLaren F1 team.[4]

References
  1. "Corporate Profile". Akebono Brake Industry. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  2. "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. Kenichi Miyamoto; Kenji Morinaga; Mori Hiroyuki (15 March 2011). Asbestos Disaster: Lessons from Japan's Experience. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 49. ISBN 978-4-431-53915-5.
  4. "Akebono Brake Company increases technical integration with McLaren Mercedes". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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