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Cross Huller (North America) Receives Prestigious Ford Q1 Award

1 November 1999

Cross Huller (North America) Receives Prestigious Ford Q1 Award

    FRASER, Mich., Oct. 29 -- Cross Huller (North America)
announced today that it was presented with Ford Motor Company's Q1 quality
award to recognize its implementation of a world class quality operating
system.
    The Ford Q1 flag and award letter were presented in a ceremony to Cross
Huller management and all employees at its main facility in Fraser, Michigan.
Accepting on behalf of employees from the Fraser and Windsor facilities,
Mr. Robert Pelachyk, Vice President and General Manager of Cross Huller (North
America), complimented everyone at both facilities for the tremendous amount
of effort put forth to gain the award.  "Together with our recent
certification to ISO 9001 and compliance to the QS9000-TE supplement, this
award demonstrates that we are a world class machine tool company, capable of
meeting all internationally recognized quality system requirements.  We look
forward to continuing our long history of business with Ford Motor Company and
developing our Continuous Source Supply relationship."
    Cross Huller provides low, medium, and high volume Modular Transfer Line
and Agile Production Systems to the global automotive industry and off-
road/construction industry.  Cross Huller (North America) is supported by two
major sister divisions in Germany and the U.K. to provide a common, global
machine tool architecture, while still providing local application engineering
and support to each market area's unique needs.
    Cross Huller is a division of Thyssen Production Systems.  Headquartered
in Essen, Germany, it is a DM 2.7 Billion division of ThyssenKrupp AG, with
8,000 employees in 10 nations.  Thyssen Production Systems focuses its global
activities on the development, production and service of metal cutting machine
tools, automated assembly systems, and automotive body shop systems.