Tue, Apr 07, 2009
Companies Previously Recognized As Performance Excellence
AwardRecepients
Boeing announced Monday night its
nine 2008 Suppliers of the Year, which were chosen from among the
company's 10,800 active suppliers worldwide.
The winners, from California, Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and
Washington, were judged on quality, delivery performance, cost,
environmental initiatives, customer service and technical
expertise. Four are small businesses as defined by the US
government.
The winners, and their categories, are:
- AMI Metals Inc. (Brentwood, TN) for common aerospace
commodities
- DigiPen Institute of Technology (Redmond, WA) for
technology
- Exotic Metals Forming Company LLC (Kent, WA) for outside
production
- Fort Walton Machining Inc. (Fort Walton Beach, FL) for
diversity/veteran-owned small business
- Nucsafe Inc. (Oak Ridge, TN) for diversity/small business
- PECO Inc. (Portland, OR) for interiors
- Sequoyah Electric LLC (Redmond, WA) for non-production
- Southern California Braiding Company Inc (Bell Gardens, CA) for
diversity/HUB zone small business
- Sunvair (Valencia, CA) for aerospace support
"These suppliers demonstrated outstanding productivity and
performance in the past year and exemplify the characteristics that
we expect," said Steve Schaffer, Boeing enterprise leader of
Supplier Management and vice president and general manager of
Supplier Management for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Before being chosen as a Supplier of the Year, each company was
named as one of the 411 recipients of a Boeing Performance
Excellence Award, according to the planemaker.
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