Meridian Automotive Systems received Club Car’s “2007 Outstanding Quality Performance Award” Friday at an awards ceremony.
Club Car officials, Meridian executives and local dignitaries joined most of the 447 Meridian employees for the event at the Salisbury plant on U.S. 70.
The Salisbury plant primarily supplies the heavy truck industry, with Club Car being the only non-heavy truck customer.
Meridian supplies front and rear end modules, exterior thermoplastics and composites, lighting and interior systems to automobile and truck manufacturers. The company operates 21 facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
The Salisbury plant opened in 2001 at a location just 5 miles from one of its largest customers, Freightliner.
Club Car launched its Precedent vehicle in January 2004, with Meridian producing the compression molded underbodies, which serve as both structural and aesthetic components. Club Car’s manufacturing facility is in Augusta, Ga.
The relationship has been marked by “consistent quality of product, services, and value to Club Car” according to Phil Gaffney, vice president of sourcing for Club Car. According to Gaffney and Mark Wisner, sourcing manager, the “consistent attention to quality of product and service details led to Meridian’s selection as Club Car’s 2007 Outstanding Quality Performance Award recipient.”