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[April 2008]
SGL Group’s HITCO Subsidiary Receives Boeing Award
SGL Group – The Carbon Company has announced that its USA based HITCO Carbon Composites subsidiary has received the Supplier of the Year Award 2007 in the Structures Commodity Category from The Boeing Company. Boeing formally presented its 2007 Supplier of The Year Awards at the annual ceremony held recently in San Diego, CA, USA.
A prerequisite for nomination is the recipient of a Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA). Only 250 out of more than 10,000 suppliers were selected for BPEA recognition. From this small pool of BPEA awardees, 10 separate categories were formed, from which the respective Suppliers of the Year were selected.
Criteria for the ‘Structures Supplier of the Year Award’ included: Quality, On-time Delivery, Customer Service, and Program Initiatives, such as Lean Manufacturing or Productivity Improvements. HITCO supplies carbon fibre-based composite components to Boeing’s B 767, C 17 and B 787 programmes.
Edward Carson, HITCO’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “As supplier of the year we have a great responsibility to maintain the high standards and quality expected from Boeing.”
HITCO continues to support Boeing as a Gold/Gold Supplier (Boeing’s highest level of supplier status) through modernised industrialisation and manufacturing capabilities including state-of-the-art automation, high quality hand lay-up and lean manufacturing techniques.
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