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A Celebration of Excellence: Presenting the 2022 IW Best Plants Awards

Oct. 25, 2022

IndustryWeek was pleased to honor the 2022 IW Best Plants Awards winners at the Manufacturing & Technology Show in Cleveland.

Robert Schoenberger,

Laura Putre,

Ryan Secard,

Jill Jusko

IndustryWeek is a firm believer that success should be celebrated, so it was our pleasure to honor the 2022 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards winners at the Manufacturing & Technology Show in mid-October.

Four manufacturing plants were named to the 2022 class of award winners in August. They are:

NOV Texas Oil Tools Conroe, Texas
Protolabs Injection Molding Facility Plymouth, Minnesota
The Raymond Corporation Greene, New York
Sandvik Coromant PU Westminster Westminster, South Carolina

In October we presented the award winners with a physical symbol of their success--the Pinnacle Award. We call it the Pinnacle Award because it represents the highest echelon of manufacturing excellence.

In this slideshow, we share photos of the awards ceremony, as well as several images from each winning IW Best Plant.

Enjoy.

About the Author

Robert Schoenberger

Editor-in-Chief

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robert-schoenberger-4326b810

Bio: Robert Schoenberger has been writing about manufacturing technology in one form or another since the late 1990s. He began his career in newspapers in South Texas and has worked for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland where he spent more than six years as the automotive reporter. In 2014, he launched Today's Motor Vehicles (now EV Manufacturing & Design), a magazine focusing on design and manufacturing topics within the automotive and commercial truck worlds. He joined IndustryWeek in late 2021.

About the Author

Laura Putre | Senior Editor, IndustryWeek

As senior editor, Laura Putre works with IndustryWeek's editorial contributors and reports on leadership and the automotive industry as they relate to manufacturing. She joined IndustryWeek in 2015 as a staff writer covering workforce issues.

Prior to IndustryWeek, Laura reported on the healthcare industry and covered local news. She was the editor of the Chicago Journal and a staff writer for Cleveland Scene. Her national bylines include The Guardian, Slate, Pacific-Standard and The Root.

Laura was a National Press Foundation fellow in 2022.

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About the Author

Ryan Secard | Associate Editor

Focus: Workforce and labor issues; machining and foundry management
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-secard/

Associate Editor Ryan Secard covers topics relevant to the manufacturing workforce, including recruitment, safety, labor organizations, and the skills gap. Ryan has written IndustryWeek's Salary Survey annually since 2021 and has coordinated its Talent Advisory Board since September 2023.

Ryan got started at IndustryWeek in August 2019 as an editorial intern and was hired as a news editor in 2020 before his 2023 promotion to associate editor, talent. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of Wooster.

About the Author

Jill Jusko

Bio: Jill Jusko is executive editor for IndustryWeek. She has been writing about manufacturing operations leadership for more than 20 years. Her coverage spotlights companies that are in pursuit of world-class results in quality, productivity, cost and other benchmarks by implementing the latest continuous improvement and lean/Six-Sigma strategies. Jill also coordinates IndustryWeek’s Best Plants Awards Program, which annually salutes the leading manufacturing facilities in North America.

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