Four businesses that impact distinctly different spheres of everyday life comprise our Industrial Components segment. Two of them - Carlisle Motion Control and Carlisle Industrial Brake & Friction - manufacture heavy duty friction and braking systems for trucks, trailers and off-highway equipment. Carlisle Tire & Wheel makes tires and steel wheels for lawn care equipment, golf cars and all-terrain vehicles. Tensolite manufactures wire, cable and cable assemblies for the aerospace industry and high-speed data communications market. New systems on and off the road. Breakthrough innovations bolster Carlisle's braking units. Motion Control's new hybrid friction formulation is an adhesive friction that doubles the life of brake linings in large trucks. Motion Control also gains market share by working toward its goal of becoming the low-cost producer of friction products. Industrial Brake & Friction, focusing on its off-highway franchise in heavy equipment, supplies brakes for 400-ton dump trucks, the world's largest. Other innovative products include a streamlined stopping system for forklifts and electric-powered emergency braking systems for on and off highway vehicles.
Carlisle Tire & Wheel, with its broad line of specialty tires and wheels, increased its leadership in the lawn and garden and golf car markets. Already North America's largest maker of non-highway tires, Carlisle further penetrated the booming all-terrain-vehicle market by acquiring ITP.
Wired for flight and communication. Up to 50 miles of Tensolite's highly engineered wire and cable serve to power, control and transmit data in a single commercial jetliner. While Tensolite remains the No. 1 supplier of high performance wire to Boeing, its expanded sales for regional and business jets provide aerospace diversification. Tensolite's most rapid growth is in high-performance cable and interconnect systems for wireless, Internet and telecommunication applications. The acquisition of UniTrek, a maker of specialty cable assemblies, accelerated this trend. In 2001, for the first time, Tensolite expects sales to the data communications markets to surpass those in aerospace.| Tensolite |
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Rapidly growing sales in data communications and
wireless Internet infra structure applications
Diversified to regional and business jets Acquired UniTrek, maker of specialty cable assemblies Positioned for new growth in high-speed communications |
| Carlisle Tire & Wheel |
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Increased market share in lawn and garden consumer
tires by acquiring Titan's consumer tire and wheel
business
ITP acquisition opens up all-terrain vehicle market Innovative styling in specialty steel wheels Overall sales up nearly 27 percent |
| Carlisle Industrial Brake & Friction |
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Leader in friction braking for off-road heavy equipment
New systems for forklifts and skid-steer loaders Braking for world's largest dump trucks Providing park brake solutions and systems for mid-range on-highway trucks and specialty chassis |
| Carlisle Motion Control |
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Innovative adhesive friction doubles life of heavy
duty truck brakes
Aiming to become the low-cost producer of large truck (Class 6, 7, 8) abrasive friction products |
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