Freudenberg-NOK earns record number of safety awards

The Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) recently presented Freudenberg-NOK production facilities with a total of eight 2000 Safety and Health Improvement Program (SHIP) Awards -- more than any other company. The facilities earned the awards for achieving dramatic improvements in employee safety and health over the past year.

Honored with the RMA SHIP Excellence Award were Freudenberg-NOK facilities in Bristol, N.H.; Scottsburg, Ind.; Spencer, Iowa; and Purcellville, Va. This award is given to companies that achieve a lost workday incidence rate that is at least 75 percent better than the overall RMA plant average.

Freudenberg-NOK plants located in Scottsburg, Ind.; Henderson, Nev.; and Bristol and Manchester, N.H., won RMA SHIP Improvement Awards for reducing their lost workday incidence rate by at least 20 percent over the previous year.

"As a perennial winner of SHIP Awards, we are extremely proud to have received a record number this year -- which underscores our ongoing commitment to safety," said Joseph C. Day, Freudenberg-NOK Chairman and CEO. "It's part of our lean culture to strive for perfect safety performance, just as we strive for perfection in our products and processes."

The majority of the company's U.S. manufacturing facilities have received SHIP Awards, including plants in Santa Ana, Calif.; Cleveland and LaGrange, Ga.; and Bensenville, Ligonier, and Morristown, Ind.

Founded in 1915, the Rubber Manufacturers Association is the national trade association of the rubber industry. Its members include more than 100 companies and affiliated organizations which produce thousands of finished rubber and tire products.

Plymouth, Mich.-based Freudenberg-NOK is part of the Freudenberg and NOK Group Companies, which have total annual sales of nearly $7 billion. With global automotive sales of approximately $4 billion, the Freudenberg and NOK Group ranks among the 15 largest OEM automotive suppliers (per Crain's Detroit Business) and is one of only eight in the top 100 that has global balance in each of the three major automotive markets -- Asia, Europe and North America (according to Automotive News).

Through a global network of facilities spanning 27 countries with some 25,000 automotive employees worldwide, the supplier group offers its automotive customers globally integrated products, including sealing packages for transmissions, engines, brakes, axles and steering, NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) components and packages, and all rubber, plastic and PTFE components for suspension, electrical and fuel systems.

The Freudenberg and NOK Group also offers an extensive portfolio of precision-molded products for the aerospace, appliance, business machine, fluid power, marine, medical, off-highway equipment and recreational vehicle markets. For more information, visit the Freudenberg-NOK web site at www.freudenberg-nok.com

Source: Freudenberg-NOK

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