19 Japanese Companies Received the 2014 Supplier Awards from Intel Corporation

Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) Program
Date: Mar 5, 2015
Source: Intel Corporation
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced the 11 winners of the company’s most prestigious award for suppliers, the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award, and 19 companies will receive the 2014 Intel Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award that recognizes commitment to performance excellence and continuous improvement.
Intel Honors 11 Companies with Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award
Intel Honors 11 Companies with Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement Award
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced the 11 winners of the company’s most prestigious award for suppliers, the Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) award. These companies set themselves apart from the thousands of suppliers that work with Intel by demonstrating industry-leading results and commitment across all critical focus areas on which they are measured: quality, cost, availability, technology, customer service, labor and ethics systems, and environmental sustainability.
This honor, which recognizes outstanding dedication to broad performance excellence, distinguishes these suppliers as truly world class within Intel’s supply chain. This elite group of top-performing suppliers is truly exceptional and makes major contributions to Intel’s technology leadership, affordability and customer responsiveness. Providing products and services deemed essential to Intel’s business success, the 2014 winners help Intel “Innovate to Deliver Smart and Connected Devices,” which is the theme of the ceremony tonight in Santa Clara, California, where these suppliers will be honored.
More details in the SCQI Press Release.
Award-Winning Japanese Companies
- Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation*: dry etching, ashing, metrology and advanced packaging systems
- Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.*: thermal thin film processing solution system
- IBIDEN Co. Ltd.*: substrate packaging materials
- JSR Corporation*: advanced photoresists, packaging materials and CMP Materials
- Moses Lake Industries (Tama Chemicals)*: plating, lithography, cleans and reagent chemicals
- Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.*: multilayer ceramic capacitors, inductors and electromagnetic interference components, SAW filters, and RF modules
- Senju Metal Industry Co. Ltd*: soldering materials (sphere, flux, paste)
- SUMCO Corporation*: 200mm and 300mm epitaxial and polished silicon wafers
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
Intel Honors 21 Companies with Preferred Quality Supplier and Achievement Awards
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 4, 2015 – Intel Corporation today announced that 19 companies will receive the 2014 Intel Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award that recognizes commitment to performance excellence and continuous improvement. These companies achieve PQS status by demonstrating industry-leading commitment across all key performance focus areas: quality, cost, availability, technology, customer service, labor and ethics systems, and environmental sustainability.
In addition to the PQS award, Intel recognized two suppliers with the Supplier Achievement Award, which is a focused recognition for extraordinary accomplishments in one or more key performance areas. This year’s winners were acknowledged for exceptional results delivering leading-edge technology solutions and excellence in product availability to meet Intel’s evolving needs as an industry leader. The 2014 PQS and Achievement winners will be honored at a ceremony tonight in Santa Clara, California.
More details in the PQS and Achievement Award Press Release.
Award-Winning Japanese Companies
- Daifuku*: automated material handling systems
- Fujifilm Electronic Materials*: process and formulated chemicals, developers, slurry, precursors and resist
- Fujimi Corporation*: chemical mechanical planarization and silicon polishing slurries
- Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company Inc.*: high purity peroxide and custom back end cleans
- Murata Machinery Ltd.*: automated material handling systems, hoist vehicles and stockers
- Nikon Corporation*: semiconductor lithography systems for technology development and high volume manufacturing
- Shin Etsu Handotai Co. Ltd.*: silicon wafers
- Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.*: plastic laminated packages and heat spreaders
- Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd.*: ceramic capacitors, inductors, and filters
- Tokyo Electron Limited*: coater/developer, dry etch systems, wet etch systems, thermal processing systems, deposition systems and test systems
- Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. Ltd*: high purity photo resists, developers, cleaning solutions and supporting chemistries
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.