Vernay Announces Opening of a New Plant

Vernay opens a new manufacturing location in China to serve local customers.

Atlanta, Georgia, September 4, 2012 – Vernay announced the newest addition to their manufacturing facility family. Vernay Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Suzhou, China opened in early 2011 and is a now fully operational manufacturing plant that mirrors the production capability and quality standards of their other manufacturing locations in the US, The Netherlands and Italy. The Suzhou team has achieved the certifications for ISO9001-2008, TS16949 and the ISO TS.

The new plant is part of their global - local strategic initiative that brings engineering resources, sales support and manufacturing to common geographic areas providing global resource coordination through a local contact.  The Vernay Suzhou plant will serve their Asia-Pacific customers across their traditional market segments including automotive, medical, printing, small engine and consumer/specialty.  Vernay’s Engineering Resource Center is located in Singapore and will provide support for the plant as well as the local customer base.  "Our goal is to have the same high quality standards in China that we have at our other Vernay locations: providing good products and services to our customers, an environment that promotes teamwork, participation, safety, job satisfaction and personal development to our employees as well as environmental responsibility,” said Patrizia De Cata, Director of Operations for the Suzhou Plant. 

“The Vernay Suzhou location is our first wholly owned fluid control production plant in China. We are proud to serve our Asia-Pacific customers locally with a fully functional design and manufacturing team,” said Andy Woodward, VP of Global Sales & Marketing of Vernay.  “This is the next logical step for Vernay to serve our customers and aligns with one of our key strategic initiatives called Global – Local; global with a local touch. It is important that we can serve our customers according to their needs and in their language. We have high expectations for the Suzhou Plant Team. They have already made great progress by gaining all of their necessary ISO and TS certifications,” said Ed Urquhart, President and CEO of Vernay.     

Vernay is a registered trademark of Vernay Laboratories, Inc.  

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