NNBR Company Profile

NN, Inc. is a diversified industrial company and a leading global manufacturer of high precision bearing components, industrial plastic products and precision metal components to a variety of markets on a global basis. We have 40 manufacturing plants in North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America and China.
Our business is aggregated into three reportable segments, the Precision Bearing Components Group, the Precision Engineered Products Group and the Autocam Precision Components Group.

Precision Bearing Components Group
Within our Precision Bearing Components Group, we manufacture and supply high precision bearing components, consisting of balls, cylindrical rollers, tapered rollers, spherical rollers and metal retainers, for leading bearing and CV-joint manufacturers on a global basis. We are a leading independent manufacturer of precision steel bearing balls and rollers for the North American, European and Asian markets. We offer one of the industry’s most complete lines of commercially available bearing components. We emphasize application-specific engineered products that take advantage of competencies in product design and tight tolerance manufacturing processes. Our customers use our components in fully assembled ball and roller bearings and CV-joints, which serve a wide variety of end markets, including automotive, agricultural, construction, machinery, heavy truck, and rail.

Precision Engineered Products Group
Following the PEP Acquisition, we combined the operations of PEP with our Plastics and Rubber Components Segment. Within our Precision Engineered Products Group, we combine materials science expertise with advanced engineering and production capabilities to design and manufacture a broad range of high-precision metal and plastic components, assemblies, and finished devices for the medical, electrical, automotive and aerospace end markets.

Autocam Precision Components Group
Within our Autocam Precision Components Group, we manufacture highly engineered, difficult-to-manufacture precision metal components and subassemblies for the automotive, HVAC, fluid power and diesel engine end markets. Our entry into the precision metal components market began in 2006 with the acquisition of Whirlaway Corporation. We dramatically expanded the segment in 2014 with the acquisitions of Autocam and V-S. These acquisitions furthered our strategy to diversify our end markets and build upon our core manufacturing competency of high-precision metal machining.

Our research and development and product engineering efforts focus on enhancing our existing products and developing patented products, particularly in the medical industry, that can be presented to and sold by our customers. Our Precision Engineered Products Group has developed a portfolio of patented medical products that we manufacture for customers and that are sold under their brand. Our Autocam Precision Products Group engineering team focuses on lowering the cost of manufacturing existing products and developing engineered solutions to improve our customers’ products. Our Precision Bearing Components Group operates two innovation centers, one in the Netherlands for rollers and one in Italy for balls, which focuses on improving the performance of the rolling element, operating life and friction generation and reducing manufacturing costs.