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The eBearing News
September 9, 2005
SNR Shuffles Top Executives
copyright © 2005 eBearing Inc.
SNR Roulements (France, a division of Renault SA, France) has shuffled top management with
parent Renault SA.
SNR head Gerard Ravouna is leaving the company a a long ten year rotation and will be
rejoining the parent Renault Group in an unspecified capacity.
Mr. Ravouna is credited with growing SNR's market position across all of its target markets,
growing organic sales by more than 50%, and expanding internationally into Brazil, Romania,
Japan and China.
Didier Simon has been named to replace Mr. Ravouna as CEO of SNR.
He is a 1982 graduate of Paris' selective ENSTA engineering/management school. Mr. Simon started his
career with Renault, spending nine years there, then joined ZF Group as Technical Director. After
six years with ZF, since 1999, Mr. Simon has been CEO of Auto Chassis International's North American operations.
Mr. Simon said, "SNR is a dynamic company, centered on the satisfaction of its
customers, where the desire to do the right thing is visible everywhere."
Renault has named Gerard LeClercq, former Director of the Mechanical Factories
of the Renault Group, as SNR's Chairman of the Board.
Founded in 1946, SNR is follow-on company of SRO, a French bearing manufacturer founded in Annecy 1916.
SRO was destroyed by WWII RAF bombing raids in 1944, and in 1946 a newly nationalized Renault took over and
revived the company as SNR (Societe Nouvelle de Roulements, or the New Bearing Company).
SNR had 2004 sales of approximately € 506 million (USD $615.5 million). The organization employs
more than 4,000 people worldwide, and 3,200 in France.
SNR has five plants in France: Annecy, the headquarters; Argonay (high precision bearings);
Meythet (roller bearings); Seynod (rolling elements, ball bearings, clutch release bearings, thrust bearings);
Ales (ball bearings, automotive wheel hub bearings. And five plants in other countries: Bielefeld, Germany
(linear guides); Curitiba, Brazil (ball bearings, tapered roller bearings); Turin, Italy (spherical roller bearings);
Sibiu, Romania (standard ball and roller bearings); Atlanta, Georgia, USA (aerospace bearing maintenance).
The company operates two main warehouse and logistics centers. The first and largest is in
Cran Gevrier, on the outskirts of Annecy; the other is in Saint Vulbas, outside Lyon.
SNR claims to be the first bearing company certified ISO 9001, in 1990.
In addition to its industrial and aerospace bearing ventures, the majority of SNR's bearing production is
dedicated to OEM auto manufacturers and aftermarket repair sales. SNR is a major supplier of
transmission bearings, suspension bearings, clutch release bearings and wheel bearings, including
advanced wheel hub units, to the world's automakers, including Citroen, Peugeot, Renault,
Fiat, Volkswagen, Volvo, and most others.
SNR has also taken an active role in the joint venture development of the dual-clutch transmission,
an advanced high-performance automatically actuated manual transmission which is projected to
take 20% of the European automotive transmission market within the next ten years.
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- by Bruce A. Carr
from individual research,
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