Spartan Light Metal Products Receives Supplier Awards From Toyota

Spartan Light Metal Products Receives Supplier Awards From Toyota

Spartan Light Metal Products, a supplier of aluminum and magnesium custom die castings was recognized with an Excellent Quality Performance Award and an Excellent Launch Award from Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (TMNA) at its Annual Supplier Business Meeting (ABM) on March 20. Held at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, ABM brings together approximately 850 supplier representatives from across North America.

Spartan Light Metal Products’ Hannibal, Missouri plant has been recognized for quality and delivery by Toyota for eight consecutive years. Only a small handful of Toyota suppliers have consecutive years’ recognition, and even fewer can claim eight consecutive years. This Hannibal, Missouri plant was also recognized for Excellence in support of the successful launch of Toyota’s new Camry while the Sparta, Illinois plant was recognized for a Quality Certificate of Achievement for shipping out zero defective parts for 2017.

The entire Spartan Light Metal Products Team is humbled to be recognized for contributions made in support of Toyota’s success.

Currently celebrating 22 years, ABM allows TMNA to discuss business objectives with direct and indirect suppliers in preparation for its upcoming fiscal year. Each year, TMNA recognizes suppliers who exceeded the company’s expectations in several categories.

“Toyota collaborates with each of our supplier partners in order to build vehicles with the high safety, quality and reliability standards to meet and exceed our customer’s expectation,” said Robert Young, Group Vice President, TMNA R&D Purchasing and Supplier Engineering Development and Cost Planning. “We are pleased to recognize those in our supply base who exceed our high performance targets and allow us to build ‘ever better vehicles’ for our North
American customers. We thank them and their team members for their tremendous support, partnership and commitment to continuous improvement and collaboration.”

About Toyota

Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. and North America for 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. During that time, Toyota has created a tremendous value chain as our teams have contributed to world-class design, engineering, and assembly of more than 36 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and
directly employ more than 47,000 people (more than 37,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.) sold more than 2.7 million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the U.S.) in 2017 – and about 87 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 15 years are still on the road today.

Toyota partners with community, civic, academic, and governmental organizations to address our society’s most pressing mobility challenges. We share company resources and extensive knowhow to support non-profits to help expand their ability to assist more people move more places. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.

For 57 Years Spartan, a family-owned business, has been an industry leader specializing in designing, developing, validating and producing aluminum and magnesium die castings as well as machining and component assemblies. Spartan has three manufacturing facilities, and offices in St. Louis, Missouri, Detroit, Michigan, Tokyo, Japan and Landstuhl, Germany.