Manufacturing and industrial excellence celebrated in Warsaw

CEO Manufacturing Magazine would like to thank all those that attended the 5th annual CEE Manufacturing Excellence & Industrial Property Awards for 2016. Once again the awards ceremony, hosted at the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel in Warsaw, was witnessed by a select group of senior European and Central European Manufacturing professionals; affirming the event’s status as a true landmark occasion for the manufacturing industry.
Recaro Aircraft Seating, Toyota Motor Europe, Panattoni and Valeo Group were this year’s big winners.
Part of the Recaro Group, Recaro Aircraft Seating picked up four awards. The company’s Deputy General Manager Michal Nowicki was named this year’s Industry Professional, topping off a very successful night for the manufacturing company. Additional achievements on the night included, winning in the Quality Control and Customer Satisfaction categories as well as Plant Manager for Recaro’s Thomas Keller.
Panattoni Europe was once again named BTS Developer of the Year, after winning two project prizes for their BTS developments in Poland – Panattoni Europe BTS for Ideal Automotive in the small category and  Panattoni Europe Fulfilment Centre BTS for Amazon in the large category. Kajima Poland also won in the BTS medium category for NGK at Dąbrowa Górnicza in Poland.
“It is a great honour and privilege to win at such a prestigious competition,” commented Marek Foryński, BTS Group Managing Director at Panattoni Europe.
Toyota Motor Europe, one of world’s leading automobile manufacturers, also gathered a considerable haul of prizes. On the night the company was awarded for its manufacturing excellence in Information Technology, Automation & Robotics, Maintenance and Supply Chain Management Logistics.
Cushman & Wakefield continued their previous successes at the event by once again picking up the Corporate Real Estate Consultancy award.
Tom Listowski, Partner, Head of Industrial Poland & CEE Corporate Client Relations, Cushman & Wakefield, said: “This award, which we are immensely proud to receive, confirms Cushman & Wakefield’s leading position in the industrial and logistics real estate sector in the CEE region.”
Valeo Group, a leader in power and automation technologies that enable customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact, picked up awards in the Sustainability & Environment and Product Design/Life Cycle Management categories.
Flex, a leading sketch-to-scale solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world, was voted as the Overall Manufacturer of the Year. And Koettermann, a producer of high quality steel laboratory furniture, won the Business and Science award.
DSV Solutions, a global transport and logistic services provider, Valeo Group, an automotive supplier/partner to all automakers worldwide, and igus, an innovator and manufacturer of polymers in motion, were also among the award winners in the Manufacturing Supplier categories.
Hays Poland, a global recruitment firm, picked up the evening’s first award in the Professional Service Provider category. Other Service providers awarded on the night included Apleona HSG in the Facility Maintenance/Property Management category. CMS was voted Law Firm of the Year, and Kajima Poland was voted Construction Company of the Year.
The sixth annual CEE Manufacturing Excellence Awards will be held on June 21st, 2018.
 
Full list of shortlisted companies, projects and winners
Professional Service Provider
Agencja Celna Complex Sad
Avitus Group
Blue Projects
Dorota Raben Consulting
Hays Poland – Winner
TPA Poland
 
Facilities Maintenance/Property Management
ATHENA Property Management
Apleona HSG Facility Management – Winner
SPIE Polska
 
Law Firm
BSJP
CMS – Winner
Wierzbowski Eversheds
 
Corporate Real Estate Agency
AXI IMMO Group
BNP Paribas Real Estate
CBRE
Colliers International
Cushman & Wakefield – Winner
 
Construction Company
CFE Poland
Kajima Poland – Winner
Karmar
 
Industrial Developer
CTP Invest
Industrial Park Development Company CJSC
Panattoni Europe – Winner
P3 Logistic Parks
7R Logistic
Segro
 
BTS Project of the Year – Small (under 20,000 sqm)
Panattoni Europe BTS for STS Acoustics – Poland
Panattoni Europe BTS for Ideal Automotive – Poland – Winner
Panattoni Europe BTS for Sanden Manufacturing – Poland
InPost at P3 Piotrków Park – Poland
Panattoni Europe BTS for Skamol – Poland
7R Logistic BTS for Velvet CARE in Klucze – Poland
 
BTS Project of the Year – Medium (over 30,000 sqm)
Panattoni Europe BTS for Tchibo Praha – Czech Republic
Kajima Poland for NGK at Dąbrowa Górnicza – Poland – Winner
Panattoni Europe BTS for IFA Rotorion – Poland
PTG at P3 Bratislava Park – Slovakia
Panattoni Europe BTS for Reuss Seifert – Poland
Panattoni Europe BTS for DSV Road – Czech Republic
VF Corporation (phase II) at P3 Prague D8 Park – Czech Republic
Tesco Distribution Centre at SEGRO Logistics Park Poznań – Poland
 
BTS Project of the Year – Large (over 50,000 sqm)
Panattoni Europe Fulfillment Centre BTS for Amazon – Poland – Winner
CTP BTS for MAKRO Cash & Carry – Czech Republic
CTPark Bucharest West 12 – Romania
Carrefour BTS at P3 Bucharest Park – Romania
Great Stone Industrial Park – Belarus
 
Logistics Services Supplier
DSV Solutions – Winner
ID Logistics Polska
Link
 
Robotics/Automation Supplier
Guenther Polska
Igus
Valeo Group – Winner
 
Manufacturing Supplier of the Year
APA Group
Electropoli Poland
Guenther Polska
Igus – Winner
PCC Exol
 
Plant Manager
Andrzej Dabrowski –  SGX Sensortech
Thomas Keller – RECARO Aircraft Seating – Winner
Piotr Sroka – WABCO Polska
Szymon Słojewski – Mercor
Krystian Szypka – Electropoli Poland
Marek Zabielski – BorgWarner
Andrzej Połojko – Flex
 
Sustainability and Environment
Avon
Electropoli Poland
Leeson Polyurethanes Ltd
PCC EXOL SA
RECARO Aircraft Seating
SEEDiA
Valeo Group – Winner
 
Business & Science
Guenther Polska
Igus
Koettermann – Winner
 
Information Technology for Manufacturing
BorgWarner
Igus
RECARO Aircraft Seating
Teconnex
Toyota Motor Europe – Winner
 
Automation/Robotics
APA Group
Flex
Igus
PZL Warszawa-Okęcie SA
Toyota Motor Europe – Winner
 
Maintenance
Cofresco Poland
PCC EXOL SA
SEEDiA
Toyota Motor Europe – Winner
 
Product Design/Life Cycle Management
APA Group
Igus
Koettermann
Mercor
RECARO Aircraft Seating
SGX Europe
Toyota Motor Europe
Valeo Group – Winner
 
Supply Chain Management Logistics
BorgWarner
Flex
RECARO Aircraft Seating
Toyota Motor Europe – Winner
WABCO Polska
 
Customer Satisfaction
Avon
BorgWarner
Flex
Igus
RECARO Aircraft Seating – Winner
Toyota Motor Group
WABCO Polska
 
Quality Control
Avon
Electropoli Poland
Flex
GripIt Fixings
LPP SA
RECARO Aircraft Seating – Winner
 
Professional of the Year
Michal Nowicki – RECARO Aircraft Seating Polska – Winner
Grzegorz Sobiecki – SKF
Piotr Sroka – Wabco
Maciej Walenda – DSV
Krzysztof Wronkiewicz – Köttermann
Marek Wzorek – Igus
 
All info at http://manufacturingawards.eu/