2023 IndustryWeek Best Plants Finalists Announced

May 2, 2023

These IW Best Plants Awards finalists employ teamwork, display leadership, collaborate with their value chain partners and unfailingly focus on performance improvement.

Jill Jusko

It’s contest season at IndustryWeek. The 2023 IW Best Plants Awards competition is underway.

IW Best Plants judges engaged in this annual salute to manufacturing excellence across North America have been reading entry forms, reviewing performance metrics and obtaining insights into how manufacturing plants run.

Today we announce the IW Best Plants Awards finalists.

These IW Best Plants Awards finalists do many things right, and their performances reflect those efforts. They employ teamwork, display leadership, collaborate with their supply chains, use technology wisely and unfailingly focus on performance improvement.

The 2023 finalists represent four U.S. states and Mexico.

About the IW Best Plants Program

The finalists’ work is not done. IndustryWeek will select the winners of the 2023 IW Best Plants Awards competition from this pool of qualifiers, who are currently engaged in completing Round 2 competition questionnaires.

The IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards winning facilities will be announced later this summer, and we will bring you their stories of manufacturing excellence. Stay tuned.

The 2023 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards finalists are:

Cooper Standard Aguascalientes Mixing
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Duke Manufacturing
Willoughby, Ohio

Intertape Polymer Group
Blythewood, South Carolina

Intertape Polymer Group
Carbondale, Illinois

Intertape Polymer Group
Danville, Virginia

About the Author

Jill Jusko

Bio: Jill Jusko is executive editor for IndustryWeek. She has been writing about manufacturing operations leadership for more than 20 years. Her coverage spotlights companies that are in pursuit of world-class results in quality, productivity, cost and other benchmarks by implementing the latest continuous improvement and lean/Six-Sigma strategies. Jill also coordinates IndustryWeek’s Best Plants Awards Program, which annually salutes the leading manufacturing facilities in North America.

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