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In 2003, the company acquired its largest domestic competitor in the bearing business -- The Torrington Company of Torrington, Connecticut through shrewd negotiating by Glenn Eisenberg, currently the CFO of Timken. Torrington had lower-cost operations in the southern United States, and most all of its plants were non-union. Because of these labour cost considerations, Timken announced that it would end its bearing manufacturing operations in Canton within five years and eliminate about 1,500 jobs in the Canton area. Recently, negotiations with the union representing Canton-area workers to lower costs at its facilities fell through when the union rejected the management's plan.
Timken's most recent acquisition in 2007 was the Purdy Corporation of Manchester, CT. Renamed Timken Aerospace Transmissions, it is part of the Timken Aerospace & Defense division headquartered in Lebanon, NH. J. Ron Menning is Aerospace & Defense president.
Fifth generation members of the Timken family are active in the company and oversee the Timken Foundation.
The company also manufactured test equipment for various purposes including properties of lubricating oil; this led to the company lending its name to the industry standard Timken OK Load metric.
The Timken Company's major international competitors in the bearings market are SKF of Sweden, NSK of Japan, and the Schaeffler Group of Germany.
