What Accuride makes

Accuride is a leading supplier of wheels to the global commercial vehicle industry, with a portfolio built around two product lines: steel disc wheels and forged aluminum wheels for medium and heavy-duty trucks, trailers, and buses. On the steel side, the company builds medium and heavy wheels and has introduced weight-optimized designs, including a one-piece flow-formed steel wheel made without a welding seam for better aerodynamics and safety. On the aluminum side, Accuride forges commercial-vehicle wheels and offers newer ranges with tire-pressure-monitoring compatibility and improved durability. It also produces light-truck, passenger, and light-commercial-vehicle wheels.

Around the wheels themselves, Accuride sells wheel-end components and assemblies and a set of proprietary finishing and protection technologies. Its coatings and surface treatments include Accu-Shield, Accu-Armor, and Steel Armor corrosion protection, and in 2026 it launched ProShield XGT, a patent-pending metal conversion process that bonds a protective coating into the aluminum microstructure to resist filiform corrosion. The company also markets the ROLLiant hub system for fleets and truck and trailer OEMs seeking long-life hub performance. Accuride positions itself as a single-source wheel-end partner to OEMs, fleets, and aftermarket channels.

Ownership and history

Accuride describes itself as having over 160 years of manufacturing expertise, a lineage rooted in commercial steel-wheel production that predates the modern corporation. Its world headquarters is in Livonia, Michigan, at 38777 Six Mile Road, having relocated from Evansville, Indiana.

The company went through a significant financial reset in 2024 and 2025. Accuride announced a debt restructuring agreement in October 2024, a bankruptcy court confirmed its plan of reorganization in February 2025, and the company emerged from Chapter 11 in March 2025. The restructuring equitized over $400 million of funded debt and restructured about $170 million of additional obligations, and added a $70 million asset-based lending facility and a $95 million-plus exit facility to support liquidity. As part of the process, Accuride's lenders, including KKR, Caspian, and accounts managed by Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, became the company's new owners, succeeding prior private-equity backer Crestview Partners. The company emerged focused on its core North American wheels segment.

Leadership was refreshed alongside the balance sheet. Geoff Bruce, formerly President of Accuride's Wheels North America division, served as interim CEO through the emergence, and in May 2025 the company named Kent Jones, a 30-year commercial-vehicle and automotive industry veteran, as permanent Chief Executive Officer. The current executive team also includes Chad Monroe as SVP and Chief Financial Officer and Jason Soika as Chief Commercial Officer.

Certifications and quality

Accuride operates to automotive quality-system standards, describing its use of ISO/IATF 16949 to design products and meet OEM expectations across its wheel plants. The company does not post a dated certificate on its site, so the standard is reported here as a claim consistent with sector norms for Tier 1 automotive suppliers.

Quality performance is corroborated by customer recognition. Multiple Accuride facilities received PACCAR's 10 PPM award for 2020 and its SPM Achiever award for 2021, and several plants earned Daimler Trucks Masters of Quality awards. Those awards, tied to defect-rate and supplier-performance metrics, are the kind of external validation that matters when a buyer is qualifying a wheel supplier for OEM programs and running PPAP on new parts.

Known customers

Accuride's customer base is concentrated among commercial-vehicle OEMs, trailer builders, and fleets. Several relationships are documented in the company's own announcements and trade coverage.

These are OEM and trailer-builder programs rather than a full customer list, which Accuride does not publish. The pattern is consistent with a wheel supplier serving the largest North American truck and trailer manufacturers.

Facilities

Accuride runs its wheel operations across the United States and Mexico, coordinated from its Livonia, Michigan headquarters. US wheel plants include Erie, Pennsylvania (steel) and Henderson, Kentucky (aluminum), with an Assemblies on Time distribution and assembly operation in Springfield, Ohio. In Mexico, the company operates wheel manufacturing and assembly at General Escobedo and Cienega de Flores in Nuevo Leon. Following the 2025 restructuring, the company narrowed its footprint to this core North American wheels business, after divesting former component operations and its Italian wheel unit in prior years. For buyers weighing nearshoring and North American sourcing, the combined US and Mexico footprint is a relevant part of the profile.

Frequently asked questions

What does Accuride make?

Accuride manufactures steel and forged aluminum wheels for the commercial vehicle industry, along with wheel-end components and assemblies and proprietary wheel coatings such as ProShield XGT and Steel Armor. Its customers are medium and heavy-duty truck OEMs, trailer builders, fleets, and the aftermarket. It also produces light-truck and passenger/light-commercial wheels.

Who owns Accuride?

Accuride has been owned by its former lenders since March 2025, when it emerged from a Chapter 11 restructuring. The new owners include KKR, Caspian, and accounts managed by Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, which took equity in exchange for retiring over $400 million of debt. Private-equity firm Crestview Partners was the prior owner.

Where is Accuride headquartered?

Accuride's world headquarters is at 38777 Six Mile Road, Suite 410, Livonia, Michigan 48152. The company previously had its headquarters in Evansville, Indiana. It operates wheel plants across the United States and Mexico.

Who are Accuride's customers?

Documented customers include Daimler Truck (a long-term wheel supply agreement), Wabash National (a long-term aluminum wheel agreement), and PACCAR and CIMC through supplier awards and adoption of its ROLLiant hub system. Accuride does not publish a full customer list, but it supplies the largest North American commercial-vehicle and trailer manufacturers.

What certifications does Accuride hold?

Accuride states it uses ISO/IATF 16949, the automotive quality-management standard, to design and manufacture its wheels, consistent with Tier 1 automotive norms. It does not post a dated certificate publicly. Its quality performance is externally recognized through PACCAR and Daimler Trucks supplier-quality awards earned by multiple plants.

Is Accuride financially stable after its bankruptcy?

Accuride completed its Chapter 11 restructuring and emerged in March 2025 with a substantially deleveraged balance sheet, having equitized more than $400 million of debt and added new asset-based and exit financing for liquidity. It retained its core wheel business and marquee OEM customers and appointed a new CEO in 2025. Accuride is private and does not publish audited financial results, so current revenue and margin figures are not available.

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