The plant produces active pharmaceutical ingredients and fine chemical intermediates marketed by Pfizer CentreSource, the business-to-business marketing arm for Pfizer’s Global Supply network.
Plant Engineering reported that Pfizer’s local site has achieved significant reductions in water and energy use, reductions in production waste, improvements in yields, while enhancing maintenance procedures, and improving safety, among other accomplishments.
Many of the advances are attributed to training provided to plant operators in the principles of operational excellence and empowering operators to pursue improvements.
"I’m proud of every colleague at the Kalamazoo plant, whose commitment to delivering quality every hour of every day enabled our achievement of this prestigious award," says Frank Foley, plant manager at the local Pfizer plant.
The Top Plant honor is awarded annually by Plant Engineering, a leading magazine serving industrial plant engineers and plant managers globally.
The award goes to manufacturing facilities that have demonstrated outstanding achievements in production, maintenance, productivity and safety. Prior winners of the elite award include Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and BMW.
"The plant’s management has emphasized improving productivity and reducing waste while operating a safe and efficient facility. As a result, Pfizer Global Supply can deliver a safe, high-quality product that is vital to its customers while delivering a safe, high-quality work environment for its employees," says Bob Vavra, Plant Engineering editor and content manager.
Michael J. Kosko, President of
Pfizer CentreSource says the award, "reflects Pfizer’s commitment to building, operating and maintaining world-class manufacturing capabilities that our own company, and our customers, can have total confidence in and be proud of."
Writer: Kathy Jennings, Second Wave Media
Source: PfizerCentre Source