American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) has recognised suppliers during its 27th Annual Supplier Day.
AAM presented two Supplier of the Year Awards and ten Supplier Excellence Awards, during a ceremony held virtually from Detroit.
Supplier of the Year Awards were presented to the Bocar Group and Heller Machine Tools.
Bocar is a direct-material aluminium high-pressure die castings and aluminium semi-permanent mould castings supplier. The company is a collaborative partner, which developed and localised a mass-optimised torque tube for use in a new vehicle programme.
Heller is a long-term AAM essential business partner of machining equipment. Heller developed solutions to meet industry demands and ensure AAM produced parts in the most effective and efficient way. This includes the company’s U-axis technology, which increases efficiency and cost savings for AAM.
Additionally, ten suppliers were also honoured with the AAM Supplier Excellence Award for their success in delivery, quality, launch or innovation.
Awardees include:
Quality:
AlphaUSA
INELCA – Industrial Electrolitica Cano SLU
Chian-Hsing Forging Industrial
Delivery:
Accurcast
Krenhof Aktiengesellschaft
Fuzhou King Duan Industrial
Launch:
Jiangsu Shuanghuan Gear
Petro-Canada Lubricants – A division of HollyFrontier Lubricants & Specialties
TCX-Beijing Taicheng Measurement and Control Technology
Innovation:
UNICA – Unión de industrias
“AAM’s supplier partners are key to our mission of delivering the industry’s best driveline and metal forming technologies and bringing the future faster,” said AAM president, Michael Simonte.
“We congratulate and thank our Supplier of the Year and Supplier Excellence Award winners and challenge them to continue to provide leading customer support, excellent quality, innovative products and top-notch delivery.”
AAM has recognised exceptional suppliers each year since its founding in 1994.
A team of AAM associates from global procurement, product engineering, supplier quality, manufacturing and supply chain management selected this year’s award winners, based on AAM’s rating of its suppliers’ delivery performance, product quality, launch execution and technology leadership.
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