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OmniSource Receives Award from DaimlerChrysler.


In June, OmniSource Corp., a scrap metal recycling company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana “Fort Wayne” redirects here. For other uses, see Fort Wayne (disambiguation).

Fort Wayne is a city in northeastern Indiana, USA and the county seat of Allen County. Fort Wayne is Indiana's second largest city after Indianapolis.
, received DaimlerChrysler Corp.'s Commodity Award, given to a group of top suppliers who demonstrated in 1999 exceptional global performance within a commodity area.

OmniSource is the only scrap metal processor to be cited for such a honor, which is based on a supplier rating Supplier rating (or vendor rating as it sometimes referred) is a business term used to describe the process of measuring an organizations supplier capabilities and performance.

Supplier rating often forms part of an organizations supplier relationship management program.
 process recognizing quality, delivery, price, supplier cost reduction efforts and minority sourcing.

Operating 31 scrap processing facilities and sales offices in six states and Canada, OmniSource generates annual sales of $675 million from 5 million tons of ferrous ferrous (fĕr`əs), iron in the +2 valence state.


Containing or having to do with iron. The difference between ferrous and ferric is the number of valence electrons they contain (ferrous contains two and ferric contains three), which
 scrap and 400 million lb of nonferrous non·fer·rous  
adj.
1. Not composed of or containing iron.

2. Of or relating to metals other than iron.


nonferrous
Adjective

1.
 metals.
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