Toray receives Boeing Supplier of the Year award
Tacoma-based Toray Composite Materials America was one out of 12 companies selected for its consistent and quality supply of carbon fiber and prepregs on various Boeing programs over the years.
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Toray Composite Materials America Inc. (TCMA, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.), a Toray Group (Tokyo, Japan) company, has been awarded the Boeing Supplier of the Year award, a leadership-nominated award given to supplier companies that support and propel Boeing’s (Arlington, Va., U.S.) strategic objectives through risk-sharing and enduring partnerships. This year, 12 companies were selected from among 11,000 Boeing suppliers worldwide, and TCMA was selected as one of them for the Alliance Award. This is Toray’s second award from Boeing, receiving the Supplier of the Year Excellence Award in 2019.
Toray began supplying Boeing in 1975 when it first qualified Torayca T300 carbon fiber for commercial application on the Boeing 737. Since then, Toray has provided high-performance carbon fiber and highly toughened, primary structure carbon fiber composite prepreg on various programs.
Receiving the Supplier of the Year Alliance Award represents Toray’s commitment to performance excellence in quality, cost and delivery. Furthermore, it demonstrates the successful collaborative relationship between the two companies on strategic programs.
Toray is committed to achieving sustainable growth as one of the basic strategies of its medium-term management program, “Project AP-G 2025,” and the aerospace applications of its carbon fiber composite materials business are positioned as products that contribute to the acceleration of climate change countermeasures in line with this strategy.
Janicki Industries also received a Boeing 2023 award.
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