Collaboration with the most efficient suppliers guarantees an outstanding and permanent contribution to corporate success. For this reason, FACC relies worldwide on first-class, strong partners. In 2015, FACC again acknowledged the exceptional performance and exemplary achievements of its best suppliers with the “Excellent Supplier Award 2015” in gold, silver, and bronze, as well as with the “Special Performance Award”.
“Particularly in times of global competition, the fact that FACC can depend on its suppliers for delivery reliability, quality, and sustainable improvements is a decisive competitive advantage,” explains Rudolf Leitner, Executive Vice President Procurement at FACC. “The companies honored this year have all taken up this challenge and are therefore a positive example of competitive partnership.”
The 2015 FACC Supplier Awards went to the following companies:
Excellent Supplier Award inGOLD:
Baz Airborne Components & Assemblies
Location: Misgav, Israel
BAZ has been one of the leading suppliers of metal parts to the aviation industry for over 35 years. Its core competencies comprise the production of bent sheet metal parts, including welding, assembly into modules, and complete surface treatment.
Excellent Supplier Award inSILVER:
GMT - Gummi-Metall-Technik GmbH
Location: Neukirchen an der Vöckla, Austria
GMT – Gummi-Metall-Technik GmbH is a subsidiary of the GMT Group based in Germany and one of the world’s leading companies in the field of noise control and anti-vibration technology for railway vehicle, construction equipment, and aircraft manufacturers. GMT supplies FACC “just in time”, directly from its production and logistics facility in Neukirchen an der Vöckla.
Excellent Supplier Award inBRONZE:
C6 Composite Tooling GmbH
Location: Buchen, Germany
C6 sees itself as a supplier of solutions, not merely as an innovative tool supplier. Extremely cost-effective implementation of customer requirements is always a main priority for C6. The company is renowned for short response times and high flexibility.
Special Performance Award:
Enikon Aerospace d.o.o.
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Enikon Aerospace d.o.o has been active in the aviation industry for more than 20 years and now has 3 facilities in Europe and the USA. The company is renowned for its expertise in surface treatment, paintwork, and the production of various interior components. Since 2015, Enikon has also been milling components for FACC on its new, state-of-the-art, 5-axis machining center.
FACC currently works together with around 650 suppliers from 30 countries. The purchasing volume of the Upper Austrian aircraft component supplier amounted to almost 310 million euros in the 2014/15 financial year. FACC’s major trading partners – in terms of both import and export – are Germany and the USA. On the procurement side, Austria comes in third place with a volume of 44 million euros. As the winner of the Excellent Supplier Award in silver, Upper Austrian company Gummi-Metall-Technik GmbH is a worthy representative of the national suppliers. “With so many workplaces – both within the company and at its Austrian suppliers – FACC also makes a substantial contribution to domestic value added and underpins its position as one of the leading businesses in the region.”
The aim of FACC’s procurement strategy is to ensure consistent and continuous exploitation of all existing commercial potential for achieving short, medium, and long-term competitive advantages for FACC, thereby sustainably supporting the corporate goals. FACC expects a high level of customer service from its suppliers with regard to quality and delivery reliability. In return, FACC offers its suppliers long-term partnerships with high growth potential in a global high-tech industry, with the opportunity to jointly press ahead with innovations and progress in the field of materials, processes, and technologies.
With the “Excellent Supplier Awards”, FACC rewards outstanding performance in the field of high product quality and strict adherence to delivery terms and conditions. Customer service, flexibility, cooperation, and the willingness to define, accept, and implement cost-reducing and process-optimizing measures are taken into consideration as additional assessment criteria. The “Special Performance Award” is presented to suppliers and/or organizations whose achievements cannot be measured with conventional methods, but who have demonstrated outstanding commitment both to FACC and to its customers.
About FACC
FACC AG is one of the world’s leading companies in the design, development and production of advanced fiber reinforced composite components and systems for the aviation industry. Their range of products extends from structural components for the fuselage and wings to engine components and complete passenger cabins for commercial aircraft, business jets and helicopters. FACC is a supplier to all large aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Sukhoi, and COMAC, as well as for engine manufacturers and sub-suppliers of manufacturers. In the business year of 2014/15, FACC achieved a turnover of 528.9 million Euros. The company currently employs around 3,100 employees worldwide.
For further information please contact:
Andrea Schachinger
Corporate Communication
Tel.: +43/59/616-1194
E-Mail: a.schachinger@facc.com