Article: Tenneco Automotive Launches Refinancing Transaction.

 Tenneco Automotive Launches Refinancing Transaction 
 
  Company Commences Offering of $350,000,000 
 
LAKE FOREST, Ill., Nov. 9  -- Tenneco Automotive 
(NYSE: TEN) announced today that the company has commenced a private placement 
offering of $350,000,000 of senior subordinated notes.  The company intends to 
use the net proceeds of this offering, together with cash on hand, to redeem 
$350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 11-5/8 percent 
senior subordinated notes due in 2009. 
These transactions are designed to reduce the company's annual interest 
expense by approximately $10 million annually. 
The new notes will be ...

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