Nov 19 2010
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced that its Global Rolled Products plant in Kunshan, China was named Supplier of the Year by Modine-Asia, a worldwide leader in thermal management systems and components.
Alcoa’s Kunshan plant supplies Modine-Asia with high-quality brazing sheet used in the automotive, industrial, and specialty markets.
Criteria for Modine-Asia’s Supplier of the Year award covers numerous areas, including: quality, supply chain effectiveness, competitiveness, and long-term relationship. Alcoa’s Kunshan plant is a defect-free supplier and supported Modine’s implementation of a new aluminum alloy across the globe. The Alcoa alloy (0301) enables Modine to produce the same high-quality across their operations. Alcoa plants that participated in the coordinated effort were: Kunshan, Köfém, Hungary and Lancaster, PA. The award was presented by Tom Marry, VP Modine-Asia in front of the Modine management team and more than 100 representatives of domestic and international suppliers.
Alcoa is working with Modine to explore ways to expand their work into additional markets using Alcoa aluminum alloys to replace other materials and take advantage of Alcoa’s abilities to reduce system costs, increase performance and generate considerable energy savings in cooling & heating.