WINNIPEG, Oct. 26, 2015
/CNW/ - (TSX: NFI) (TSX: NFI.DB.U) New Flyer of America Inc.,
("New Flyer" or the "Company"), the leading manufacturer of
heavy-duty transit buses in Canada
and the United States, announced
today that the Company's Winnipeg
manufacturing facility has been selected as the only Canadian
finalist for the 2015 IndustryWeek Best Plant Award.
Established in 1990, IndustryWeek's annual salute to
outstanding North American manufacturing facilities serves two
purposes:
- To recognize plants that are on the leading edge of efforts to
increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction, and create
stimulating and rewarding work environments.
- To encourage other manufacturing managers and work teams to
emulate the honorees by adopting world-class practices,
technologies, and improvement strategies.
In order to qualify, candidate facilities are judged by a panel
of IndustryWeek editors, who may solicit independent evaluations
from manufacturing experts and other knowledgeable persons. New
Flyer demonstrated strong evidence of:
- A comprehensive effort to achieve world-class manufacturing
capability.
- Improvements in manufacturing operations, including shortening
of manufacturing cycle times, improvements in productivity, and
reduction of inventories.
- Extensive employee involvement and empowerment programs,
especially efforts to create and provide training for
high-performance work teams.
- A strong customer focus, including customer-satisfaction
programs, customer involvement in product design, employee contact
with customers, and efforts to reduce customer leadtimes.
- Effective supplier-partnership programs, including efforts to
solicit supplier evaluations of plant practices.
"We are tremendously proud to be named among the finalists for
this prestigious industry recognition," said Kevin Wood, New Flyer's Vice-President of
Manufacturing. "This honour of being the only Canadian finalist
across all of North America, is a
tribute to the hard work and dedication to improving performance
seen in each New Flyer employee. We could not be more pleased to
have been the only transit bus manufacturer to receive this
prominent distinction""New Flyer has become known for their focus
on sustainability both in terms of what they build to how they
build," said Ron Koslowsky, Vice
President of the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters. "They have
used technology to facilitate a lower environmental footprint, as
well as to gain competitive advantage in the marketplace and secure
profitability in the process. Their commitment to their employees
extends through the care and attention to safety demonstrated by
their exemplary record."
About New Flyer
New Flyer is the leading manufacturer of heavy-duty transit
buses in the United States and
Canada. The Company is the
industry technology leader and offers the broadest product line of
transit buses including drive systems powered by: clean diesel,
natural gas, diesel-electric hybrid, electric trolley and now,
battery-electric. All buses are supported by an industry-leading
comprehensive warranty and support program, and service network.
New Flyer also operates the industry's most sophisticated
aftermarket parts organization, sourcing parts from hundreds of
different suppliers and providing support for all types of transit
buses.
The New Flyer group of companies employ over 3,300 team members
with manufacturing, fabrication, parts distribution and service
centers in both Canada and
the United States. Over 32,000 New
Flyer and NABI heavy-duty transit buses are in operation today.
Further information is available on New Flyer's website at
http://www.newflyer.com
The common shares and convertible unsecured subordinated
debentures of the Company are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange
under the symbols NFI and NFI.DB.U, respectively.
SOURCE New Flyer Industries Inc.