Kaydon Corporation (NYSE: KDN) recently was honored by GE Energy through its Supplier Excellence Awards program. The prestigious award recognizes excellence in compliance, quality, lean, direct material productivity, growth and customer centricity. Kaydon received GE’s Excellence in Growth award, which is given to a supplier with the largest year-over-year growth.
“Kaydon has consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence,” said Jody Markopoulos, vice president of global sourcing, GE Energy. “GE’s Excellence in Growth award recognizes Kaydon’s dedication to integrity, strong values and quality performance.”
“This recognition by GE Energy, a valued partner and global leader, is an important honor for Kaydon and its employees,” said James O’Leary, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaydon Corporation. “It provides further validation of our success in providing value added solutions for world class customers.”
GE Energy has been presenting its Supplier Excellence Awards for more than 10 years. This year’s award winners were chosen from a field of 60 U.S. and European contenders, which were nominated by GE global commodity leaders and supplier quality leaders. GE Energy’s senior sourcing leadership team reviewed the applications, which were put through a rigorous ion process. The final decisions are based on actual quantitative metrics and subjective opinion tied to historical commercial relations.
Additionally, Kaydon will have a mural donated on its behalf by GE to the C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital, located in Ann Arbor, MI. The mural will be painted by Foundation for Hospital Art volunteers. The non-profit organization was founded in 1984 and since that time 500,000 volunteers and patients have painted more than 30,000 paintings in 190 countries in more than 2,000 hospitals.
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, named in honor of one of its founding benefactors, Flint (Michigan) automotive pioneer Charles Stewart Mott, is one of America’s leading children’s hospitals, attracting young patients from around the nation and the world. A part of the University of Michigan, its faculty-physicians and post-doctoral fellows are leaders in pediatric treatment and research across a wide range of specialty areas including childhood cancers, cardiac surgery, esophageal repair, adolescent depression, and public policy.
Kaydon Corporation is a leading designer and manufacturer of custom-engineered, performance-critical products, supplying a broad and diverse group of alternative-energy, industrial, aerospace, medical and electronic equipment, and aftermarket customers.
Contact: James O’Leary
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
(734) 747-7025 ext. 2025
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