Multimillion-dollar order is for large-bore tapered bearings

CANTON, Ohio — Aug. 13, 2008 — The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) has received an order in the low-multimillion-dollar range to provide large-bore tapered roller bearings for a new high-precision aluminum rolling mill under construction in Northwest China.

Timken designed a bearing solution for Qinghai Ping’an High Precision Aluminum Co. Ltd., which is constructing the new mill in Ping’an, Qinghai province. The customer will install Timken® bearings in the roll-neck position of the hot strip mill.

Timken supplies a broad range of friction-management and power-transmission solutions, including tapered, spherical, cylindrical and needle bearings for industrial applications.