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[February 2008]
ESK Receives Grundfos Supplier Award
ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co KG (Kempten, Germany), the manufacturer of advanced ceramic products and materials for industrial applications, has received the Grundfos Supplier Award 2007. Grundfos is the world’s biggest manufacturer of pumps with total sales of over €2 billion.
Each year, the company evaluates over 500 suppliers according to criteria such as quality, reliability of delivery, sustainability, service and competitive prices. ESK has continually met the highest specifications and therefore earned the distinction of supplier of the year 2007.
The Grundfos Group, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark, employs a total of 15,000 people in its 50 subsidiaries around the world; its market share for circulator pumps for heating systems is 50%.
Since 1998, ESK has supplied Grundfos with high quality heat- and corrosion-resistant mechanical seals and bearings of EKasic® silicon carbide. The EKasic® ceramic that ESK develops and produces at its Kempten site is harder and more resistant than metal.
“The distinction is a huge success and, of course, an outstanding reference for us. My very sincere congratulations to our team. It earned the award through perfect project management and first-class customer service. The achievement is all the more considerable when you consider that we have outstripped much bigger competitors,” enthused Dr Thomas Jüngling, spokesman for the ESK managing board in Kempten.
“ESK is one of the most important suppliers for manufacturing our industrial pumps and closely integrated in a whole range of new projects,” said Klavs Hornum, Purchasing Director at Grundfos, at the official award presentation held at the Grundfos headquarters in Bjerringbro. “This extensive project management requires really top performance. With ESK, we can always rely on Key Account Manager Heiko Schulz and his team to take care of everything down to the last details.”
The prize was accepted by ESK Vice President of Sales Barbara Schaaf, Senior Manager Sven Schweizer, Production Manager Jeff Janssen of ESK France and Key Account Manger Heiko Schulz.
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