improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message tenneco inc. type public traded as nyse ten industry auto parts founded 1940 headquarters lake forest illinois key people gregg m. sherrill chairman & ceo brian kesseler coo kenneth r. trammell cfo james harrington senior vice president and general counsel 1 products ride control emissions control elastomers revenue 8.2 bil 2015 2 number of employees 30 000 3 website http www.tenneco.com tenneco formerly tenneco automotive and originally tennessee gas transmission company is an american fortune 500 company that has been publicly traded on the nyse since november 5 1999 under the symbol ten . tenneco with headquarters in lake forest illinois united states 4 is an automotive components original equipment manufacturer and an after market ride control and emissions products . in 2011 it reported a revenue of 7.2 billion citation needed . contents 1 history 1.1 natural gas 1.2 diversification 1.3 consolidation 2 operations 3 locations 3.1 united states 3.2 international 4 references 5 external links history edit tenneco inc. s origin was in the chicago corporation established about 1930 . 5 tennessee gas and transmission company completely separate had been formed in 1940 . 6 natural gas edit a shortage of fuel for world war ii defense industries in the appalachian area developed when industrial production was increased . the nuclear development operations of the manhattan project at oak ridge tennessee consumed huge quantities of tennessee valley authority electrical power that would have otherwise been available to other industrial operations . the chicago corporation was able to acquire a federal power commission fpc license to build a pipeline from texas to appalachia eventually expanding to the largest natural gas pipeline network in the united states . these pipelines were acquired by el paso corporation in 1996 and are now owned by kinder morgan and others . diversification edit in the 1950s the company acquired existing oil companies including sterling oil del key petroleum and bay petroleum . 7 the tennessee division of the chicago corporation acquired tennessee gas transmission company in 1943 to build a natural gas pipeline 1 265 miles 2 036 km from texas to west virginia . the first line was completed in october 1944 . it was followed by three additional pipelines totaling 3 840 miles 6 180 km 6 during the next 15 years which provide gas to new york and new jersey . 8 in 1966 tennessee gas was incorporated as tenneco inc. 5 tenneco expanded into a number of business ventures as a result of diversification . tenneco bought houston oil & minerals corporation in the late 1970s . tenneco owned and operated a large number of gasoline service stations but all were closed or replaced with other brands by the mid 1990s . 6 fairchild f 27j executive aircraft of tenneco at chicago o hare airport in 1979 in the 1970s tenneco purchased 53 % of j.i. case when they purchased its owner kern county land company the agricultural equipment manufacturer based in racine wisconsin usa . 9 in 1972 tenneco purchased uk based david brown tractors ltd. and merged it with the j.i. case business . in 1984 case parent tenneco bought selected assets of the international harvester agriculture division and merged it with j.i. case . all agriculture products are first labeled case international and later case ih . tenneco purchased the articulated 4wd manufacturer steiger tractor in 1986 and merged it into case ih . the corporate direction was to buy failing companies and work to develop them into market leaders . this worked well with newport news shipbuilding but failed miserably with the various tractor companies probably due in large part to the economy at the time . by 1988 the company was losing 2 million per day . after being pressured by the banks it was decided to sell off the oil business . tenneco oil exploration company was split up and sold off to multiple buyers . by 1994 tenneco decided to begin getting out of the ag business and agreed to sell 35 % of the now named case corporation . 10 in 1996 the spin off of case corporation was completed . the company was acquired by fiat in 1999 and merged with new holland agriculture to form cnh global . 11 consolidation edit tenneco inc. emerged from a conglomerate consisting of six unrelated businesses shipbuilding packaging farm and construction equipment gas transmission automotive and chemicals . 12 the automotive division was spun off from tenneco inc. in 1991 along with the packaging energy natural gas and shipbuilding divisions . 6 all businesses except automotive and packaging were disposed of between 1994 and 1996 through public offerings sales spin offs and mergers . 12 in 1999 tenneco packaging was spun off and renamed to packaging corporation of america pactiv corporation . 12 since the 1960s tenneco automotive sold mufflers uk silencers in europe including through the chain pit stop in germany . the group bought a german factory in virnheim in 1969 swedish starla in 1974 and french bellanger and english harmo industries in 1976 and danish lydex in 1978 . more acquisitions followed . 13 on october 28 2005 the name was changed from tenneco automotive to tenneco . 14 tenneco under the tenneco automotive name sponsored cart s detroit grand prix from 1999 until the race s cancellation after 2001 . citation needed operations edit tenneco is a multi national corporation with 89 manufacturing facilities in 26 countries located on 6 continents with major centers of operations in north america europe australia and asia . there were 26 000 employees in 2013 citation needed . the north american manufacturing facilities are located in arkansas illinois indiana michigan tennessee georgia and ohio ; the corporate headquarters is located in lake forest illinois european facilities in belgium poland czech republic germany uk france spain and portugal with headquarters located in belgium asian facilities include in india china singapore and japan australian facilities are in sydney morea new zealand clarification needed and clovelly park and african facility includes south africa s port elizabeth . citation needed tenneco owns the following brands monroe 15 walker 16 rancho 17 dynomax 18 clevite elastomers 19 gillet 20 fonos 21 fric rot 22 kinetic 23 thrush 24 dnx 25 marzocchi 26 axios 27 lukey 28 these are sold to over 500 after market customers including retailers and wholesalers and to more than 25 oems including audi chrysler daimler enfield fiat ford motor company general motors honda navistar international jaguar cars mahindra & mahindra maruti suzuki mazda mitsubishi nissan porsche psa peugeot citro n renault koda suzuki tata toyota tvs volkswagen group volvo e z go and club car citation needed . locations edit united states edit arkansas paragould products shock absorbers struts georgia hartwell products shock absorbers indiana elkhart manufacturing plant that primarily makes exhaust components for other tenneco facilities . the elkhart plant is the only manufacturing plant that is owned rather than leased by tenneco . ligonier manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for ford motor company chrysler and honda . ligonier is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil gradually rolls it into a pipe and then welds the seam shut . this newly formed pipe is then cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as is to other tenneco plants . angola elastomeric products heavy duty automotive products spring eye bushings fluid bushings torque rod assemblies links & v rods . michigan litchfield manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components . this plant has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil gradually rolls it into a tube and welds the seam shut . this newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as is to other tenneco plants . marshall manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for ford motor company chrysler and general motors . marshall is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil gradually rolls it into a tube and then welds the seam shut . this newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as is to other tenneco plants . the marshall facility is also equipped with multiple high speed automatic muffler assembly lines . monroe houses the north american business unit which consists of almost 500 employees involved in multiple disciplines such as design product engineering sales and marketing . 29 missouri kansas city manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for ford and general motors . nebraska seward manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for cat chrysler general motors john deere and harley davidson . seward is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil gradually rolls it into a tube and then welds the seam shut . this newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as is to other tenneco plants . ohio kettering products shock absorbers struts modular suspension assemblies xnox injector and xnox dcu box . milan products suspension bushings cab mounts steering system bushings exhaust isolators rubber compound napoleon products anti vibration bushings and suspension links tennessee smithville products automotive parts virginia harrisonburg aftermarket exhaust . virginia beach a jit just in time manufacturing facility that makes exhaust systems for the ford f 150 plant in norfolk virginia international edit argentina rosario monroe fric rot shock absorbers australia edinburgh park adelaide products exhaust systems monroe clovelly park adelaide products shock absorbers struts walker o sullivan beach adelaide products emission control monroe springs sydney products coil and leaf springs belgium sint truiden eu headquarters ride control division ; metc the eu design and development center ; largest ride control plant in europe ; products shock absorbers powdered metal components press parts brazil cotia s o paulo axios products engine mounts shock absorber bushings and dampers moji mirim s o paulo monroe walker products exhaust automotive systems and shock absorbers canada cambridge ontario exhaust systems and components owen sound ontario shocks and shock absorbers under the label monroe china suzhou products elastomer products czech republic hodkovice shock absorber and emission control plant in hodkovice nad mohelkou germany edenkoben products exhaust systems hungary kecskem t product exhaust systems india bawal products struts shock absorbers front fork pune products muffler silencers catalytic converter complete exhaust systems hosur products struts shock absorbers front fork sanand products exhaust system silencers mexico aguascalientes aguascalientes exhaust systems celaya guanajuato shock absorber struts puebla puebla exhaust systems reynosa tamaulipas products bushing silentbloc bonded products clevebloc products sta bars control arm links engine mounts poland rybnik emission control engineering and manufacturing gliwice shock absorber struts plant with engineering centre eeec in gliwice near katowice 1 stanowice portugal palmela products exhaust systems jit plant vw autoeuropa . spain ermua products shock absorbers elastomers and complete exhaust systems gij n products shock absorbers valencia wales tredegar producing exhaust systems under the tenecco walker brand employing 190 dowlais top producing exhaust components scheduled to employ 200 references edit leadeership team . www.tenneco.com . tenneco inc. retrieved 3 september 2016 . mike alzamora . tenneco inc. . www.tenneco.com . tenneco . retrieved 3 september 2016 . mike alzamora . tenneco inc . www.tenneco.com . tenneco . retrieved 3 september 2016 .