Alcoa Named Top Auto Supplier by OEMs, Automotive Industries Magazine.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2003 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) ranked Alcoa (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AA) among the automotive industry's top 50 suppliers in the 6th Annual Quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the Excellence survey of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and readers conducted by Automotive Industries Automotive Industries, Ltd. (Hebrew: תעשיות רכב נצרת עלית, תע"ר magazine. Readers rated the performance of nearly 300 companies with respect to quality, innovation, price, delivery and service/support. Alcoa supplies global automakers with a variety of automotive components and assemblies, including aluminum sheet for body panels and hoods, wheels, electrical and electronic systems, structural cast and forged components and assemblies such as bumpers, engine cradles, drive shafts, roof systems and the like through its various automotive businesses. Alcoa's worldwide automotive businesses have been integrated and aligned under an automotive market sector team, to give customers a single-point access to all of Alcoa's automotive capabilities. To learn more about Alcoa's automotive business visit www.alcoa.com/lnk/auto. The results of AI's 6th Annual Quest for Excellence survey are in the magazine's June issue. 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, 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 as a single solution to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap(R) aluminum foil Noun 1. aluminum foil - foil made of aluminum aluminium foil, tin foil foil - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" , 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, precision castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The company has 127,000 employees in 40 countries. For more information go to www.alcoa.com |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion