At a Grand Opening Ceremony held June 24, 2005, Mr. Yasunori Terada, President & CEO of NTN-Bower Corp., dedicated a 290,000 sq. ft. expansion of the company's Macomb plant to the plant's employees and the surrounding community.

• This expansion is an approx. 40% increase in size of NTN-Bower's Macomb plant (now totalling 750,000 square feet).
   
• During the past year, NTN-Bower employment at the Macomb Plant has increased by 130.
   
• The new space houses state-of-the-art production equipment for components of Caterpillar, Inc.'s undercarriages on track-type-tractors. NTN-Bearing Corp. of America & NTN-Bower Corp. announced the contract signing with Caterpillar during the expansion dedication ceremony.
   
• During past 2 years new product lines added at the Macomb plant have included fan housing assemblies for heavy truck industry and mass weights (clutch arms) for automatic transmissions in highway truck industry.

Photos from the Grand Opening Ceremony are below. For more information about NTN-Bower Corp., visit their web site www.ntnbower.com.

Aerial View of NTN-Bower Macomb Plant.
Expanded area at the top of the photo.

Officials from NTN-Bearing Corp. of America & NTN-Bower Corp.
attend contract signing with Caterpillar, Inc. to manufacture
undercarriage components at the NTN-Bower Macomb facility.

Grand Opening Ceremony June 25, 2005
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