Enter the 2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards Competition
IndustryWeek has launched the 2026 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards competition, our annual search for manufacturing excellence in North America. If your manufacturing facility in the United States, Canada or Mexico is a showcase of teamwork, leadership, outstanding performances and continuous improvement, then we want you.
IW has been honored to celebrate more than 250 IndustryWeek Best Plants Award winners since the program began in 1990. In 2025, we celebrated four IW Best Plants Award winners: Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies in Santa Ana, California; Intertape Polymer Group Inc. in Tremonton, Utah; MSM, Magna Powertrain Inc. in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada; and Pullmatic Mfg. Magna Powertrain Inc. in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Are you ready to join these marvelous manufacturers, these showcases of the excellence that accrues with the right combination of people, process, technology and the will to improve, always?
The online 2026 IW Best Plants Competition Entry Form is available here. Simply create an account and get started.
The deadline to complete the 2025 entry form is April 3, 2026. An early-bird deadline of March 16 offers a discount.
This is a plant-level competition. To participate, your plant/facility must have completed at least three years of operation, and be located in the U.S., Canada or Mexico. To qualify as a manufacturing facility, the plant's output should be a physical product representing value-added.
The About the IndustryWeek Best Plants Program page outlines the complete rules, the eligibility requirements, the costs to participate, as well as the selection process and tentative timeline. It also contains links directly to the online competition form.
If you have any questions once you’ve reviewed the entry form, or if you have any questions anywhere along the way, please contact Jill Jusko, the IW Best Plants director at [email protected] or by phone at 518-323-9117.
Important Links:
About the IndustryWeek Best Plants Program
2026 Online IW Best Plants Competition Entry Form
PDF of the Eligibility and Application Process
IndustryWeek’s Best Plants Awards Competition: A Guide (2024 Webinar about the process.)