Freightliner LLC has recognized 26 suppliers and 36 individual facilities with the company's Masters of Quality award.

The annual awards go to companies who meet the highest standards of quality in providing parts and components for Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, American LaFrance and Thomas Built Buses vehicles.
The Masters of Quality supplier award, in its 17th year, is the highest recognition that Freightliner LLC gives to its suppliers.

The 2004 Masters of Quality award recipients are as follows:

Fourteenth-Year Recipient:
-- Consolidated Metco Inc., Monroe, N.C.
Thirteenth-Year Recipient:
-- Paramount Bedding Inc., Damascus, Ore.
Twelfth-Year Recipient:
-- Consolidated Metco Inc., Clackamas, Ore.
Tenth-Year Recipient:
-- Marine Plastics Ltd., Langley, B.C., Canada
Ninth-Year Recipients:
-- Consolidated Metco Inc., Portland, Ore.
-- Flexalloy Inc., St. Thomas, Ont., Canada
-- Julian Electric Inc., Westmont, Ill.
Eighth-Year Recipient:
-- Flexalloy Inc., Charlotte, N.C.
Sixth-Year Recipients:
-- Behr Climate Systems Inc., Fort Worth, Tex.
-- East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc., Lyon Station, Pa.
Fifth-Year Recipient:
-- Gates Rubber, Denver, Colo.
Fourth-Year Recipients:
-- Bostrom Seating Inc., Piedmont, Ala.
-- Gunite Corp., Rockford, Ill.
Third-Year Recipients:
-- Boyd Corp., Portland, Ore.
-- Eaton Clutch Division, Auburn, Ind.
-- Flexalloy Inc., Toluca, Mexico
-- Hendrickson International, Kendallville, Ind.
-- Molded Fiber Glass Co., Ashtabula, Ohio
Second-Year Recipients:
-- Bendix Corp. Heavy Vehicle Systems, Del Rio, Tex.
-- Bendix Corp. Heavy Vehicle Systems, Urbana, Ohio
-- Flambeau Southeast Corp., Madison, Ga.
-- Fontaine Fifth Wheel Co., Birmingham, Ala.
-- Fontaine Fifth Wheel Co., Irondale, Ala.
-- Inmagusa SA de CV, Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico
-- Kalas Manufacturing Co., Denver, Pa.
-- Molded Fiber Glass Co., Morganton, N.C.
-- Molded Fiber Glass Co., Stevenson, Wash.
-- Progressive Metals Manufacturing, Ferndale, Mich.
-- Sure Fit Metals Products Inc., Livonia, Mich.
First-Year Recipients:
-- Bendix Corp. Heavy Vehicle Systems, Frankfort, Ky.
-- Eaton Vorad, Galesburg, Mich.
-- GDX Automotive, New Haven, Mich.
-- Hendrickson International, Piedras Negras, Mexico
-- Hurd Corp., Greeneville, Tenn.
-- McCoy Bolt, Fort Wayne, Ind.
-- Tenneco, Monroe, Mich.
Freightliner LLC, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, produces and markets Class 3-8 vehicles under the Freightliner, Sterling, Western Star, American LaFrance and Thomas Built Buses nameplates.
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