Tetra Pak bags JIPM award

Tetra Pak’s packaging material factory in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, has bagged the world’s top award for manufacturing excellence. Presented by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance, the World Class Total Production Maintenance Award recognizes facilitiesthat have achieved outstanding levels of production reliability and efficiency.In the past 40 years, only 20 companies, worldwide, have received this accolade. “The World Class Total Production Maintenance (TPM) Award is a great recognition of the ongoing efforts of our highly committed people at our Gornji Milanovac plant,” said Eric Baudier, executive vice president, supply chain operations at Tetra Pak. “The TPM mindset is well established throughout our organization. We began to apply the World Class Manufacturing practices of TPM in 1999 and have since rolled out this methodology across all factories and every part of our supply chain worldwide. This demonstrates our commitment to continuously raising the bar for ourselves, delivering the best quality and service for our customers.” TPM was introduced by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) in 1971 and is defined as the ultimate method of…

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