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You may be able to make you own breaks, but Akebono Brake makes original-equipment brake systems for carmakers, as well as brake components for the automotive aftermarket. The company makes products such as disc brake calipers and pads, parking brake components, and drum brakes. It operates two brake plants in Kentucky and an R&D and engineering center in Michigan. Customers include AUDI, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. Akebono Brake is a unit of Tokyo-based Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., which entered the US market in 1980.
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310 Ring Rd.
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
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Chairman and CEO, North America:
Tsuyoshi (Go) Kashiwagi
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CFO:
Ron Jones
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Media Contact:
Laura Sullivan
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