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The Water Heating Division of Rheem Manufacturing Company recently paid special tribute to several suppliers at its annual Supplier Awards Ceremony.
The Rheem executives – Ken Jarosz, Corporate Vice President Strategic Sourcing; Dan Luehrs, Vice President of Operations; and Bill Kennedy, Supplier Development Manager – presented a "Supplier-Partner of the Year" award to the top-performing supplier for 2006 in each of six different commodity groupings:
Manufactured Components: Cedinor (Nuevo Leon, Mexico); Plastic/Rubber Components: Mercury Plastics, Inc. (Middlefield, OH); Electrical-Mechanical Components: Tyco Fire & Safety Products (Lubbock, TX); Printed/Packaging/Insulation Components: Owens Corning (Springfield, TN); Raw Materials: Liberty Steel (North Jackson, OH); Distribution: Gulf Coast Marketing (Birmingham, AL).
Supplier-Partner of the Year awards are based upon rated performance in five specific categories: technology, delivered product quality, service and support, delivery, and cost.
In addition, Temple-Inland of Indianapolis, IN, received the "Most Improved Supplier" award, given annually to the supplier who has demonstrated the most overall improvement in delivered product quality and supplier-rating performance versus the previous year.
Finally, eleven companies were cited for achieving "zero defects" or no incoming/in-process material rejections in the products and services they supplied to Rheem during 2006. The award recipients were:
Liberty Steel (North Jackson, OH); Pemco (Baltimore, MD); Merryweather Foam (Sylacauga, AL); Newcomb Spring (Lithonia, GA); Wenzel Metal Spinning (Scottsboro, AL); Trillium Metal Stampings (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada); Central United Corporation (Newburg, WI); U.S. Silica (Pacific, MO); Standard Register (Franklin, TN); Jakel, Inc. (Highland, IL); Commercial Metal Forming (Youngstown, PA).
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