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La planta de Kennametal en Shlomi recibe el premio nacional de calidad de IsraelThe plant of Kennametal in Shlomi receives the national prize of quality of Israel
29 August 2012
The plant of Shlomi in Israel of Kennametal Inc., specialist in tools of mechanised and supply of resistant solutions to the wear, represented in Spain by Kenci, has been awarded with the most prestigious prize between the companies of that country: the national prize Isaac Rabin to the quality and the excellence. The prize is the equivalent in Israel to the national prize of quality Malcolm Baldrige in the United States.
To reach the first place in the category of companies of 150 employees or more, Kennametal competed with other 20 prestigious companies of the Israeli industry. The director of the plant, Alon Zimel, accepted elpremio in a celebrated ceremony in the Israeli Parliament to which assisted the national ministers of industry, trade, work, inland revenue, and others.
The team of the plant of Shlomi received the recognition by:
- The approach in the customers and the needs of the market.
- The best results of planning and execution of the gestión of process of his category, inside the limitations of time and budget.
- The establishment of processes 100% insurance, that places to the plant of Shlomi in the first row of the ahead common strategy and ‘preach with the example' of the Israeli industry.
- The efficient and effective use of the internal data in all the organisation for the autoaprendizaje and the constant improvements in all the fields.
- The continuous improvement in operation, financialss and hygiene in the last two years, with monthly and quarterly reports.
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