John Deere Awards and Recognitions for FST

From the left: Rainer Schmidt (Account Manager Freudenberg Sealing Technologies), Angelika Mulac (Segment Director Agriculture & Material Handling Freudenberg Sealing Technologies), Pierre Gyout (VP Global Supply Management & Logistics John Deere), Richard Czarnecki (VP Agriculture & Turf, Global Supply Management), Thorsten Kurz (Product Marketing Freudenberg Sealing Technologies).

Partner-Level Suppliers are evaluated through Deere’s Achieving Excellence (AE) program. Freudenberg Sealing Technologies’ AE program scores attest to the company’s outstanding performance in quality, on-time delivery, cost management and technical support. The company has worked with John Deere for more than 80 years and provides its Agriculture & Turf unit with accumulators and suspension systems, among other products.

Since 1991, Deere & Company has annually reviewed suppliers to all of its business units using its AE program. The program incorporates key metrics in areas including quality, technology and innovation, on-time delivery and company culture. In this process, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies achieved a score of 494 out of 500 possible points this year.

"We are very pleased to have received this award since it acknowledges our strong customer orientation and our continuing efforts to achieve high quality in all key areas,” said Angelika Mulac, Segment Director Agriculture & Material Handling at Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. “We are very proud of the evaluation because we received a similarly high positive rating in both North America and Europe. This shows our employees’ exemplary global cooperation.”