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Raymond Honored With IndustryWeek 2014 Best Plant Award
Raymond was awarded a 2014 Best Plant Award for the Greene, New York, plant and headquarters by IndustryWeek. The Best Plants Award looks to recognize outstanding companies across North America that deliver manufacturing excellence through leading-edge efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments.
Raymond Honored With IndustryWeek 2014 Best Plant Award
GREENE, N.Y. — The Raymond Corporation has been recognized with an IndustryWeek 2014 Best Plant Award for the Greene, New York, plant and headquarters. Celebrating its 25th year of the Best Plants Award, IndustryWeek looks to recognize outstanding companies across North America that deliver manufacturing excellence through leading-edge efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments. The program’s additional purpose is to encourage other manufacturing managers and work teams to emulate the honorees by adopting world-class practices, technologies and improvement strategies.
“We are proud to be recognized for our efforts in continuous improvement of producing world class lift trucks for our customers’ material handling needs,” says Michael Field, president of operations and engineering at Raymond. “It has been part of our more-than-90-year history to always innovate and apply world-class practices, such as the Toyota Production System (TPS), to improve our manufacturing capabilities. We plan to continue to evolve our approach to manufacturing and materials handling optimization through the use of automation and telematics solutions that solve enterprise-level improvement challenges.”
“The IndustryWeek Best Plants Award is great recognition for all the members here at the facility in Greene,” says Richard Harrington, vice president of U.S. manufacturing at Raymond. “The improvement in quality has been an evolutionary journey due to the application of the Toyota Production System (TPS). This system is not an event, rather a culture and thought process approach with visual management tools to gauge progress. Our team has embraced this method, meeting every challenge faced with a desire to achieve long-term excellence and produce the best product possible for our customers”.
Of the 14 finalists named, Raymond is one of six companies that has been recognized as an IndustryWeek 2014 Best Plant winner.
Click here to read IndustryWeek’s latest article recapping this award, “2015 IW Best Plants Winner: The Raymond Corporation Chases Zero."
For more information on Raymond or to locate a Raymond authorized Sales & Service Center, visit www.raymondcorp.com or call 800-235-7200.
About The Raymond Corporation
The Raymond Corporation, named a 2014 North American Best Plant by IndustryWeek magazine, is a global provider of unmatched material handling technology, expertise and support to increase productivity and cost-efficiency. Designed with ecological and economical benefits in mind, Raymond® lift trucks are engineered to achieve higher performance and increase efficiency. Raymond offers a full line of manual and electric lift trucks — including pallet trucks, walkie stackers, counterbalanced trucks, reach trucks, orderpickers and turret trucks — and iWAREHOUSE®, complete with iWAREHOUSE Essential™ and iWAREHOUSE Enterprise™, to manage lift truck fleets, labor efficiencies and warehouses. Additionally, flexible automation solutions and industry-leading consultation from Raymond further enhance warehouse processes and streamline material handling practices.
About The IndustryWeek Best Plants Award Competition
Established in 1990, the IndustryWeek Best Plants awards program annually recognizes plants, located in North America, that are on the leading edge of efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments. Its further goal is to encourage other manufacturing managers and work teams to emulate the honorees by adopting world-class practices, technologies, and improvement strategies. For additional information, visit www.industryweek.com.
iWAREHOUSE®, iWAREHOUSE Enterprise™, iWAREHOUSE Essential™ and Raymond® are U.S. trademarks of The Raymond Corporation.
©2015 The Raymond Corporation. All rights reserved.
“We are proud to be recognized for our efforts in continuous improvement of producing world class lift trucks for our customers’ material handling needs,” says Michael Field, president of operations and engineering at Raymond. “It has been part of our more-than-90-year history to always innovate and apply world-class practices, such as the Toyota Production System (TPS), to improve our manufacturing capabilities. We plan to continue to evolve our approach to manufacturing and materials handling optimization through the use of automation and telematics solutions that solve enterprise-level improvement challenges.”
“The IndustryWeek Best Plants Award is great recognition for all the members here at the facility in Greene,” says Richard Harrington, vice president of U.S. manufacturing at Raymond. “The improvement in quality has been an evolutionary journey due to the application of the Toyota Production System (TPS). This system is not an event, rather a culture and thought process approach with visual management tools to gauge progress. Our team has embraced this method, meeting every challenge faced with a desire to achieve long-term excellence and produce the best product possible for our customers”.
Of the 14 finalists named, Raymond is one of six companies that has been recognized as an IndustryWeek 2014 Best Plant winner.
Click here to read IndustryWeek’s latest article recapping this award, “2015 IW Best Plants Winner: The Raymond Corporation Chases Zero."
For more information on Raymond or to locate a Raymond authorized Sales & Service Center, visit www.raymondcorp.com or call 800-235-7200.
About The Raymond Corporation
The Raymond Corporation, named a 2014 North American Best Plant by IndustryWeek magazine, is a global provider of unmatched material handling technology, expertise and support to increase productivity and cost-efficiency. Designed with ecological and economical benefits in mind, Raymond® lift trucks are engineered to achieve higher performance and increase efficiency. Raymond offers a full line of manual and electric lift trucks — including pallet trucks, walkie stackers, counterbalanced trucks, reach trucks, orderpickers and turret trucks — and iWAREHOUSE®, complete with iWAREHOUSE Essential™ and iWAREHOUSE Enterprise™, to manage lift truck fleets, labor efficiencies and warehouses. Additionally, flexible automation solutions and industry-leading consultation from Raymond further enhance warehouse processes and streamline material handling practices.
About The IndustryWeek Best Plants Award Competition
Established in 1990, the IndustryWeek Best Plants awards program annually recognizes plants, located in North America, that are on the leading edge of efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments. Its further goal is to encourage other manufacturing managers and work teams to emulate the honorees by adopting world-class practices, technologies, and improvement strategies. For additional information, visit www.industryweek.com.
iWAREHOUSE®, iWAREHOUSE Enterprise™, iWAREHOUSE Essential™ and Raymond® are U.S. trademarks of The Raymond Corporation.
©2015 The Raymond Corporation. All rights reserved.