Alcoa Mill Products Achieves Top 10% Global Supplier Status with Nissan North America's Quality Master Award.Business Editors/Automotive Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2004 Alcoa (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AA) announced today that for the second year in a row its Mill Products business received the Quality Master Award from Nissan North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Alcoa's Davenport, Iowa Davenport is a city in the American state of Iowa that borders the Mississippi River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 98,359. A 2006 estimate tells that the city had grown slightly to 99,514. and Danville, Illinois  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. ,
plants are major suppliers of aluminum sheet products for the hoods,
deck lids and various structural applications for Nissan's Altima
and Maxima sedans.
The Quality Master Award is based on the evaluation of Nissan's suppliers by the company's engineering, manufacturing, product quality, purchasing and production control units. Only suppliers that have achieved a high level rating by each function can succeed in achieving this recognition. Based on this, Alcoa has proven itself to be one of Nissan's higher performing suppliers. "This recognition by one of our top customers exemplifies the quality and delivery performance capabilities Alcoa Mill Products offers to the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . I congratulate our employees in the Davenport and Danville plants, as well as our entire technical service and application engineering organizations, who worked hand-in-hand to ensure our product meets or exceeds Nissan's expectations," said Bob Wetherbee, President of Alcoa Mill Products. "We will continue to look for ways to increase the value we deliver to Nissan through our service model, alloy development and design solutions." Alcoa Mill Products produces the widest variety of aluminum sheet and plate products in the world. It makes everything from common alloy products to aerospace sheet and plate. Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: aluminum and alumina alumina (əl  `mĭnə) or aluminum oxide, Al2O3, chemical compound with m.p. about 2,000°C; and sp. gr. about 4.0. , and is active in all major aspects of
the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging,
building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial
markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities
of Alcoa's businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum
products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including
Reynolds Wrap(R) foils and plastic wraps, Alcoa(R) wheels, and Baco(R)
household wraps. Among its other businesses are vinyl siding Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. Vinyl siding, first introduced to the exterior cladding market in the late 1950s, is an alternative to aluminum siding, fiber cement siding, and timber siding. , closures,
fastening systems, precision castings, and electrical distribution
systems for cars and trucks. The company has 120,000 employees in 41
countries. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com
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