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Celebrating a Major Safety Milestone at Grede St. Cloud! Congratulations to the Grede St. Cloud team on earning the Minnesota Governor’s Workplace Safety Award. This recognition reflects the team’s strong commitment to injury prevention and maintaining a safe, healthy workplace. Grede St. Cloud achieved an incident rate better than the 75th percentile of both the state and national averages for our industry—an outstanding accomplishment that demonstrates consistent focus, discipline, and care for one another. On May 6th, the team will be honored with the Gold Achievement Award at the Minnesota Safety & Health Conference. Keep up the great work, St. Cloud team—your dedication to safety sets the standard for excellence across our organization.
Grede recently partnered with a team of students at South Dakota Mines for their senior design project! Thanks to the students, Grede now has a better understanding of solid solution strengthened ferritic ductile iron (SSFDI) and will apply these solutions to our solidification modeling process. Grede provided the problem and materials, and the students provided the solutions. They went through a process of defining the problem, creating experiments to collect data, and data analysis to provide useful solutions. Thank you to Grede Grad and SDM alumnus Chris Mercado and Grede Executive Director of Technical Excellence Shawn Cefalu for serving as the industry advisors, the three students, and two faculty advisors, for assisting with this project. It took two semesters to complete the project, and they did a fantastic job with their senior design class’s final presentations. We’re excited to continue to cultivate our relationship with the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. This school is one of our Grow with Grede target schools, meaning that we regularly recruit talent from this school as part of our early career talent development program.
Congratulations to Grede Menomonee Falls for achieving Ford Motor Company’s Q1 Quality Award! 🏆🚙 Ford’s Q1 Award recognizes outstanding quality and performance in our castings for their vehicles. We earned this award by achieving excellence in product quality, systems capabilities, materials management, logistics, and delivery. We’re proud to have earned this recognition from Ford. It validates our commitment to being a trusted partner. It's a testament to the Menomonee Falls plant’s continuous improvement culture in safety, quality, delivery, cost reduction, and overall operational excellence. Ford presented the Q1 plaque and flag to the Menomonee Falls facility in Wisconsin last week. All team members joined in on the celebration and were provided special t-shirts and treats. Grede's Menomonee Falls is a pure-play machining facility that produces steering knuckle assemblies for the Ford Explorer. It specializes in precision machining and assembly operations for automotive, commercial vehicle, and industrial customers. Fantastic work, Men Falls team! At Grede, our customers can find comfort and trust through every step of their journey. We’re committed to providing dependable solutions with unparalleled value. #CastingIntegrity
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Grede recently participated in the New Castle-Henry County Chamber of Commerce and Eastern Indiana Works' Career Day, an event designed to connect students with industry leaders and top employers in the community. 🏫👨🎓 Grede New Castle demonstrated Foundry in a Box to local high schoolers, where they made their own Grede keychains. 🔑 It was a fantastic day dedicated to engaging more than six local high schools about the foundry industry’s vital role in society. 🧑🏭
We’re delighted to share that PACCAR Parts has again recognized Grede with the 10PPM Quality Award! 🏆🎉 Grede Reedsburg in Wisconsin received this award for constantly producing high-quality parts for PACCAR in 2024. For every million pieces made at our flagship foundry in Reedsburg, ten or fewer had quality issues. Congratulations to Grede Reedsburg for this impressive achievement. It’s a great example of our dedication to quality and operational excellence. Thank you, PACCAR, for your business and for trusting us to produce safety-critical castings for your commercial vehicles.
Congratulations to Chief Administrative Officer Matt Hladki for joining the Board of Directors for the Foundry Educational Foundation. In the photo, Matt is shaking hands with FEF Board President Jason Gutierrez from Soundcast during the FEF Board Meeting at Purdue University. Matt will serve on the board for three years and is also now part of the FEF Board’s alumni ambassador and communications committee. We also want to thank VP of Operational Excellence, Michael Meyer, for serving on the FEF Board for many years as he transitions out of this role. FEF’s mission is to strengthen the metalcasting industry by supporting unique partnerships among students, educators, and industry, helping today's students become tomorrow's leaders. Matt is passionate about early career talent development, which is clear with the implementation of our Grow with Grede program in the last two years. We’re delighted that Matt will take a leadership role in this wonderful organization.
Last week, we celebrated Skilled Trades Day. 🔦🎉🎒 All of our foundries celebrated our skilled trades workers on May 7 and thanked them for everything they do to keep our equipment running. Without them, we can't run an efficient foundry operation. Here are photos from some of our celebrations in Browntown, Wisconsin; Biscoe, North Carolina; New Castle, Indiana; and St. Cloud, Minnesota. In addition to thanking them for everything they do, we gave out lunch bags, flashlights, backpacks, candy bars, cookies, etc., as a small token of our appreciation. Foundries are extremely dependent on every piece of equipment for a smooth foundry operation as a whole. It's critical that we retain our skilled trades workers and attract more candidates. We have several open positions in skilled trades. Apply today at www.grede.com/careers.
Congratulations to our foundry in St. Cloud for achieving the Minnesota Governor’s Workplace Safety Award for the fourth consecutive year! 🏆✨ Grede was recognized with the Gold Achievement Award for 2024 from the Minnesota Safety Council. We received this award for achieving an incidence rate better than the 75th percentile of both the state and national average for the manufacturing industry. Last week, Sr. Safety Manager Mark Schulman accepted the award at the annual Minnesota Safety & Health Conference.
Keeping all foundry equipment running smoothly is critical to our efficiency. Without it, operations would come to a halt. Our skilled trades workers are the backbone of this effort, ensuring everything runs seamlessly. 💪 However, filling these essential positions can be challenging. Today, on Skilled Trades Day, we want to extend our gratitude to all the technicians, electricians, and skilled trades workers at Grede for everything they do to keep our equipment running. We're hiring several skilled trade positions! If you’re interested in joining our team, visit www.grede.com/careers.
