We believe the timing is now right to capture the value of this business, especially in light of industry consolidation and the anticipated improvement in longer-term market conditions,
These announcements are the latest steps in Tenneco's five-year transformation, ... We are now at a point in our evolution where we must again ensure that the company is structured to provide the greatest value to our shareowners.
This is the final turn in the long road of the Tenneco transformation from a debt-ridden conglomerate of underperforming companies to a lineup of independent, 'pure play' growth companies,