SEATTLE, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) tonight announced
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 U.S. government.
The winners, and their categories, are:
-- AMI Metals Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.) for common aerospace commodities
-- DigiPen Institute of Technology (Redmond, Wash.) for technology
-- Exotic Metals Forming Company LLC (Kent, Wash.) for outside production
-- Fort Walton Machining Inc. (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.) for
diversity/veteran-owned small business
-- Nucsafe Inc. (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) for diversity/small business
-- PECO Inc. (Portland, Ore.) for interiors
-- Sequoyah Electric LLC (Redmond, Wash.) for non-production
-- Southern California Braiding Company Inc (Bell Gardens, Calif.) for
diversity/HUB zone small business
-- Sunvair (Valencia, Calif.) 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. For
information on the 2008 Boeing Performance Excellence Award visit
www.boeing.com/BPEA.
SOURCE Boeing
Ann Schmidt, Communications of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, +1-425-717-8658,
ann.m.schmidt@boeing.com; or Dean Tougas, Communications of Boeing Shared
Services Group, +1-425-865-7686, dean.tougas@boeing.com; or Amy Horton,
Communications of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, +1-314-233-4368,
amy.e.horton@boeing.com
