Rock West Composites receives silver Boeing Performance Excellence Award
The company received the award for consistent performance excellence over a twelve-month period from October 2018 to September 2019.
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Rock West Composites (RWC; San Diego, Calif., U.S.) announced on August 31 that it has received a 2019 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Boeing (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. RWC says it maintained a silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from October 2018 to September 2019.
This year, Boeing recognized 357 suppliers who achieved either a gold- or silver-level Boeing Performance Excellence Award. RWC says it is one of only 295 suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition.
“Making our customers competitive is part of our core mission, and to achieve this we must meet stringent cost, schedule, and performance requirements,” says Jim Gormican, the CEO of RWC. “We strive to do this for all our customers, so we are really proud of our team that worked on the contracts that contributed to this award.”
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