Webb Renames Business Unit Severe Duty to Reflect Expanded Product Focus

Effective January 1, 2011, Webb Wheel Products Inc. will change the name of its Transit Business Unit to Webb Severe Duty. The change reflects the company’s plans to expand their platform and product offering to serve a wider market. Webb Severe Duty will continue to serve and grow within the transit/coach industry but will also now focus on new markets including refuse, fire, construction, school bus and military. 

Webb Severe Duty will continue new product innovation in their core product lines of brake drums, rotors and friction that will emphasize developments around complete brake system solutions. These complete solutions will be engineered and matched components such as drums and friction material, rotors and disc pads as well as other severe duty components. 

In a letter sent to the company’s customers explaining this change, Randy McGuire, president, Webb Severe Duty, emphasizes Webb’s knowledge base as an important factor in their expansion plans “Today, Webb supplies the highest quality brake drums, rotors, friction and components to the transit industry through a network of world-class distributors.  Utilizing the knowledge that we have gained through our focus on the transit and coach markets, we will provide the same high quality products to similar, severe-duty markets.”