Nelson Receives Navistar Diamond Supplier Honor

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Feb 09, 2015, 04:00 ET

STOUGHTON, Wis., Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Nelson Global Products announced today that they were a recipient of Navistar's Diamond Supplier Award for 2015. Given out to only 26 of Navistar's 1200 global suppliers, Nelson was honored to be named one of the "best-of-the-best" for quality, delivery, technology and cost.

The Stoughton, Wisconsin based Nelson produces a wide variety of exhaust system components and structural tube fabrications for the commercial and recreational vehicle industries. "We are thrilled to receive this award and to be a part of this elite group of suppliers," commented Sergio Carvalho, CEO of Nelson Global Products. "I'm proud of our team and the strong collaborative relationship that we have built with Navistar."

From freight and engineering services to plastics, electronics, seats, and castings, the Diamond Supplier Award recognizes the best suppliers from around the world. Navistar's Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer Phil Christman remarked, "Our products are only as good as the parts we use to build them. We expect every one of our products to have exceptional quality and uptime, and the 26 suppliers receiving this award have set the bar for that level of performance."

For the team at Nelson Global Products, being selected by Navistar was particularly rewarding. "We've worked hard to achieve this status and everyone here appreciates having their efforts recognized by a premier global vehicle manufacturer like Navistar," concludes Carvalho.

About Nelson Global Products
With 75 years of rich engineering and manufacturing history, Nelson Global Products designs, manufactures, and markets a broad range of high performance exhaust and tubular products for OEM and aftermarket use for the global on-highway and off-highway markets. These products include mufflers and silencers; exhaust tube assemblies; EGR and Thermal Management Tubing (TMT) for emissions systems; pressurized tube assemblies for air, hydraulic and lubrication; and structural assemblies.

The company's operations include corporate offices in Stoughton, WI, and manufacturing operations in Clinton, TN; Fort Wayne, IN; Arcadia, Black River Falls and Viroqua, WI; Morton, IL; Cambridge, MN; and international operations in Monterrey, MX; Scoresby, Australia; Pune and Rudrapur, India; Rio Grande do Sul and Araucaria, Brazil; and Changzhou, China.