Akebono Brake Industry

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
Native name
曙ブレーキ工業
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 7238
ISINJP3108400007
IndustryAutomotive
Founded(27 January 1929; 95 years ago (1929-01-27))
FounderSanji Osame
Headquarters
Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo headquarters)
Hanyu City, Saitama (Ai-City headquarters)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Yasuhiro Miyaji
(Chairman, President and CEO)
ProductsBrakes for vehicles, motorcycles, trains, industrial machinery
RevenueIncrease JPY 281.3 billion (FY 2015) (US$ 2.44 billion) (FY 2015)
Number of employees
9,238 (consolidated, as of March 2016)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. (曙ブレーキ工業, Akebono Burēki Kōgyō) is a Japanese manufacturer of brake components for automobiles, motorcycles, trains, and industrial machinery.

The company was founded by Sanji Osame in 1929 as Akebono Sekimen Kogyosho as a response to the demand by the Japan Army Authority for ground transport; its first products were brake linings used by the government entity.[3] Today it is now a large company with a significant overseas presence and wide range of brake products for many applications.

Polestar 1 with Akebono brakes
  1. ^ "Corporate Profile". Akebono Brake Industry. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. ^ Kenichi Miyamoto; Kenji Morinaga; Mori Hiroyuki (15 March 2011). Asbestos Disaster: Lessons from Japan's Experience. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 49. ISBN 978-4-431-53915-5.