Tyre major Michelin has honoured nine of its best vendors at its fifth edition of the Supplier Awards, selected based of five key criteria.
The tyre maker said the winners in the field of Industrial Purchases include Mekins (India's leading manufacturer & exporter of Automobile Packaging Solutions such as Metal Pallets, Engine Racks, Wire-mesh containers, Tire Pallets), HF Mixing Group, Germany (leading machine manufacturer for the rubber processing industry) and RUBIX (a leading industrial distributor with a pan-European footprint)
The winners in the field of Raw Material Purchases include Jianghan New Materials (a functional silane producer since 1995), Paturle (a European steel company based in France, specialising in the cold rolling, quenching, hardening, and tempering of precision carbon and stainless-steel strips, a product for which they are a worldwide leader) and Kolon Industries (a South Korean company having diversified activities in industrial materials, chemicals, electronic materials, and fashion).
The winners in the field of Services Purchases include Apostrophe Technologies (a South Philadelphia-based company that produces an open-source CMS platform that allows clients to build and maintain websites that they can change themselves; Miratrans (a transportation and logistics company based in Poland) and Warehouse Services Inc (a privately held warehouse services company and third-party logistics provider headquartered in Piedmont, South Carolina).
Helene Paul, Chief Procurement Officer, Michelin, “The mission of Purchasing is to contribute to Michelin’s sustainable performance by engaging suppliers that enhance value creation and innovation, supporting Michelin’s competitiveness and growth. This is why the quality and effectiveness of the relations we build with our suppliers, and their commitment at our side, are essential.”