JTEKT Bearings
Canada Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary
of JTEKT, a company headquartered in
Japan.
Approximately 210 unionized employees
manufacture planetary shafts for
automatic transmission and rotary pump
vanes for hydraulic pumps for engines
and transmissions which serve major
known automotive customers.
The factory is located in Bedford and
has been in existence for over 135 years
(under different names over time: Corey
Needles, Torrington, Timken, Koyo
Bearings Canada).
The main manufacturing processes at this
plant are cold extrusion, grinding,
machining and heat treatment.
The union
president of the JTEKT Bearings Canada unit
is: Pascal Tremblay.
