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Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Founded: January 27, 1929

Founder: Sanji Osame

Key People:

Yasuhiro Miyaji (Chairman, President, CEO)

Employees: 9,238

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he 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. Today it is now a large company with a significant overseas presence and wide range of brake products for many applications.

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

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

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