Recaro honors its top suppliers and launches environmental supplier award
Eleventh annual Global Supplier Conference focuses on moving forward together
While one of the global leaders in the aircraft seating industry, Recaro is also a family-owned business that highly values close partnerships. That is why the company, each year, organizes a Global Supplier Conference. This year’s event attracted more than 160 participants from 70 companies from all over the world.
During the conference, Recaro experts as well as guest speakers shed their light on trends and expectations in the aviation market and how to best respond to these. Recaro upholds high standards of quality, innovation and on time delivery and expects nothing less from its suppliers. How to combine being lean, competitive and efficient with innovation, agility and remaining a supplier of choice, hence was a recurring topic throughout the presentations.
Sustainability also took center stage during the conference. Especially in Boet Kreiken’s presentation. As the Executive Vice President Customer Experience for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Kreiken went into the 100-year history of the airline and the changes it has gone through. He particularly emphasized the need for sustainable solutions for customers and the aviation market in general.
"Sustainability is a key theme in society and in our industry,” says Joachim Ley, Executive Vice President Supply Chain at Recaro Aircraft Seating. “As Recaro and its suppliers want to be prepared for the future and remain a supplier of choice, we need to keep coming up with innovative, adaptable and flexible solutions to address this and other important issues.”
Environmental category award
With the increased focus on and importance of sustainability, Recaro added a brand-new environmental category to its list of supplier awards. The honor of winning the first Recaro Environmental Supplier Award went to Henkel GmbH (Germany). They were lauded for their contribution to sustainable production solutions as well as engagement in promoting these solutions to other companies.
Next to the environmental award, Recaro rewarded 6 other suppliers for outstanding achievements:
- Yantai Aikai Tianlong Moulding Plastics won the Newcomer Award. This Chinese company has been delivering to Recaro since 2016 and combines competitive pricing with excellent service levels.
- Dietrich Aldinger GmbH from Germany received the Production Material Award. The award jury emphasized their punctual delivery, quality as well as the outstanding degree of customer orientation and service level.
Other awards went to Transcal Polska, Alu Menziken Euromotive, Kalis Innovation and Artex.
Dr. Mark Hiller CEO and Shareholder of Recaro Aircraft Seating: "We congratulate all the winners of our supplier awards 2019. I also want to thank Boet Kreiken for being a guest speaker at this conference. Over the past years, our company achieved tremendous growth and has come up with great innovations. This would not have been possible without the continued support from trusted suppliers and long-standing partners like KLM.”
Our picture shows from left to right:
Laurent Bersot (Director Purchasing), Qiu Shengfu (Aikai Tianlong Moulding Plastics), Arkadiusz Przadka (Transcal Polska), Achim Aldinger (Dietrich Aldinger GmbH), Alice Godderidge (Alu Menziken Automotive), Heinz Brazel (Kalis Innovation), Kristine Rudzite-Zogla (Artex), Dace Stungrevica (Artex), Joachim Ley (Executive Vice President Supply Chain)
