New Rail Coaches in India to Run on Timken® Bearings

Company Supplies Axle Assembly to BEML Ltd.
CANTON, Ohio--(Business Wire)--
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) today announced that it supplied axle bearing
assemblies to BEML Ltd. for use on eight prototype coaches being manufactured
for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.

Delhi Metro Rail, a high-tech, high-capacity rail system designed to alleviate
traffic congestion in India's largest metropolitan areas, is expanding into
Bangalore, Mumbai and other major cities in India. The transit system is seeking
to purchase rail coaches and wagons from local suppliers such as BEML.

Since opening in 2002, all of Delhi Metro Rail`s coaches have been equipped with
Timken® axle bearings. Timken also supplies bearing assemblies to the
state-owned Indian Railways. The Timken facility in Jamshedpur manufactures the
bearing assemblies.

BEML, headquartered in Bangalore, was founded as Bharat Earth Movers Limited.
The company has expanded its infrastructure to manufacture coaches for the rail
system, in addition to making earth-moving equipment.

About The Timken Company

The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR, http://www.timken.com) keeps the world turning,
with innovative friction management and power transmission products and
services, enabling our customers to perform faster and more efficiently. With
sales of $5.7 billion in 2008, operations in 26 countries and approximately
25,000 employees, Timken is Where You Turn for better performance.

The Timken Company
Media Contact:Lorrie Paul Crum, Manager - Global Media and Strategic
Communications, 330-471-3514
Facsimile: 330-471-7032
lorrie.crum@timken.com
or
Investor Contact: Steve Tschiegg, Director - Capital Markets and Investor
Relations, 330-471-7446
Facsimile: 330-471-2797
steve.tschiegg@timken.com
or
The Timken Company
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