JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.,
Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- NN, Inc., (NASDAQ: NNBR) a diversified industrial company,
today announced that the Company has successfully completed its
previously announced divestiture of the Precision Bearing
Components Group (PBC) to Tsubaki Nakashima, Co., Ltd., for
$375 million in cash.
Richard Holder, President and CEO
commented, "The sale of PBC furthers NN's long-term strategy to
build a diversified industrial business. We now estimate the
net proceeds from the transaction to be $300 million which further enhances our ability
to continue to balance our portfolio, expand our margin and
earnings profile, strengthen our balance sheet and strategically
acquire businesses in higher growth and higher margin end
markets."
NN, Inc., a diversified industrial company combines advanced
engineering and production capabilities with in-depth materials
science expertise to design and manufacture high-precision
components and assemblies for a variety of markets on a global
basis. Headquartered in Johnson
City, Tennessee, NN has 33 manufacturing plants in
North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, South America and China.
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objectives or future operations or statements of future economic
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and the Company's ability to manage these costs, start-up costs for
new operations, debt reduction, competitive influences, risks that
current customers will commence or increase captive production,
risks of capacity underutilization, quality issues, availability
and price of raw materials, currency and other risks associated
with international trade, the Company's dependence on certain major
customers, and the successful implementation of the global growth
plan including development of new products. Similarly, statements
made herein and elsewhere regarding pending and completed
transactions are also forward-looking statements, including
statements relating to the future performance and prospects of an
acquired business, the expected benefits of an acquisition on the
Company's future business and operations and the ability of the
Company to successfully integrate recently acquired businesses or
the possibility that the Company will be unable to execute on the
intended redeployment of proceeds from a divestiture, whether due
to a lack of favorable investment opportunities or
otherwise.
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Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Except as required by law, we
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