2015

June 10, 2015

Minebea Co., Ltd.

Minebea Group to Exhibit at the 2015 Paris Air Show

Minebea Co., Ltd will, along with its group companies (collectively "Minebea Group"), participate in The 51st Paris Air Show^*1 scheduled for Monday, June 15 through Sunday, June 21, 2015 at Le Bourget Exhibition Centre in Paris, France to introduce Minebea Group's global portfolio of aerospace products and solutions.

Rod End / Fastener Business Unit of Minebea, NMB-Minebea-GmbH (headquartered in Langen, Germany), one of the sales companies in Europe for Minebea Group, New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. (headquartered in New Hampshire, the U.S.A., hereinafter "NHBB"), Minebea's manufacturing subsidiary in North America, CEROBEAR GmbH (headquartered in Herzogenrath, Germany), German manufacturing operation of Minebea, and Shiono Precision Co., Ltd. (Hamura-shi, Tokyo) will work together to run two booths for Minebea Group, one for Minebea (displaying mainly rod end and spherical products), the other for CEROBEAR/NHBB (displaying mainly ball and roller bearing products), at the Paris Air Show.

Minebea Group is a one-of-a-kind bearing manufacturer which manufactures and provides such bearings products as rod-end bearings, spherical bearings and complex ball and roller bearings, etc. being used for aerospace industries at all of the three major aircraft markets in Europe, North America and Asia (Japan and Thailand)^*2. In the circumstances where aircraft manufacturers have been accelerating their focus on the global purchasing strategies, Minebea Group is committed to strengthening its world-wide supply and delivery system to quickly respond to various needs and requests of our customers.

Booth locations of Minebea Group

Major items on display

• Rod-end & spherical bearings
• A wide variety of complex ball bearings and cylindrical roller bearings up to 420 mm O.D.
• Custom engineered precision mechanical subassemblies
• Next-up assemblies & machined parts
• Airframe control bearings (standard series as well as special designs)
• Aerospace fasteners
• DC brush motors for aircraft actuators & solenoids
• "Wavy Nozzle"*
  * we will use this opportunity to exhibit to aerospace machining companies our "Wavy Nozzle", a revolutionary high- efficient chip removal device, developed internally and used for processing of machine tools.

Outlook of Minebea booth

Aerospace Products on display

(Center: Rod-end bearings, Upper right: Spherical bearings, Lower right: Roller bearings,
Upper left: Custom engineered precision mechanical subassemblies for aircraft, Lower left: Fasteners)

CEROBEAR: Ceramic bearings

Shiono Precision: Precision machined components for aircraft

*1

"The Paris Air Show" is organized by Salon International de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (SIAE), a subsidiary of GIFAS (the French Aerospace Industries Association). The air show will take place at Le Bourget exhibition center in Le Bourget International Airport located in the suburbs of Paris, France. The air show is to be held every other year alternately at the Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England as Farnborough International Airshow and at Le Bourget exhibition center. Exhibitors include such aircraft manufacturers as Boeing and Airbus, etc. and many other affiliated companies. Please take a look at its official web-site.

*2

The aerospace market requires bearings of extremely high precision to withstand environments of high temperature, high speed, and heavy load. Minebea Group has extensive experience designing, manufacturing, and servicing our aerospace customers and providing solutions for their most demanding applications. Minebea Group has obtained certification for both standard and custom-designed product from major aircraft manufacturers in Europe, North America, and Japan.

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