Honeywell Honors Featherlite Trailers for Excellence on U.S. Dept. of Energy Project

Asset Caption: Accepting the Honeywell Supplier Excellence Award on behalf of Featherlite Trailers are (l to r) Eric Clement, vice president of sales, and Dave Kite, specialty sales manager.

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    CRESCO, Iowa--June 12, 2003--Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) has awarded Featherlite, Inc. the 2002 Supplier Excellence Award for superior performance and product manufacturing. Honeywell FM&T contracted with Featherlite to build three 53-foot logistic support trailers to be used by the Department of Energy.
    "All supplier excellence award nominations are evaluated based on delivery performance, quality performance, technical support, order administration, cost control and responsiveness," Veva Lucero, Senior Buyer for Honeywell FM&T, said.
    Honeywell FM&T is a prime contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy. FM&T manufactures advanced electronic, manufacturing and engineered material components for national defense systems.
    Lucero praised Featherlite for its design, fabrication and delivery of the three trailers in addition to the excellent communication Featherlite Specialty Sales provided throughout the process. "We are awarding (Featherlite) the 2002 Supplier Excellence Award with great pride in having done business with a company that takes pride in their work," Lucero said.
    Celebrating its 30th year in the trailer industry this year, Featherlite has designed and manufactured custom trailers for emergency response, law enforcement and fire department units, as well as other governmental agencies across the United States. Featherlite has built mobile hazardous materials response vehicles, disease control centers, command and communication centers, training and office trailers and mobile fire stations for local and state agencies, as well as mobile recruiting trailers for the United States Air Force.
    In addition to custom trailers, Featherlite's luxury coach division, the nation's largest Prevost bus shell converter, designs and manufactures coaches for business, governmental, executive and individual needs. Featherlite Luxury Coaches' new Specialty Vehicles division manufactures command center units for fire, law enforcement and disaster first responders.
    For more information on Featherlite custom specialty trailers, call a Featherlite Specialty Sales Manager at 800-800-1230. For information on coach platform units, call Featherlite Specialty Vehicles, 888-826-8273. Go to the Featherlite website at www.fthr.com for additional information.

    About Featherlite:

    Founded in 1973, Featherlite has grown into a strategically diversified company doing sales in excess of $210 million annually in the U.S. and Canada. The company, employing more than 1,200 people in facilities covering more than 450,000 square feet, has unparalleled capabilities to engineer and manufacture custom specialty trailers, coaches and mobile marketing units to the most exacting demands. Featherlite has highly diversified product lines offering hundreds of standard model and custom-designed specialty trailers.

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