As a worldwide leader in highly engineered bearings and alloy steels, The Timken Company serves every major manufacturing industry. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of tapered roller bearing and seamless mechanical steel tubing. It also produces and services, ball, cylindrical and spherical bearings for select markets, ships more than one million tons of premium alloy steel annually and provides related products and services.

Through its eight business units, Timken serves some 24,000 customers around the globe. The company's sales in 2000 totaled $2.6 billion, up about 6 percent from 1999. As a new century unfolds, Timken is moving from beyond its traditional bearing and steel products to provide more integrated modules, services and advanced solutions for its customers. Today's rapidly changing world is creating endless streams of innovative possibilities.

Timken has built a company culture that emphasizes both team and individual performance and stresses continuous improvement. We are committed to attracting and retaining superior associates and providing the opportunity for full development of their skills and abilities in an environment of open communications, mutual trust and respect.

Find out more about The Timken Company by visiting us online at www.timken.com.