Achievements

Yaskawa Electric Corp. (Waukegan, IL) has been awarded First Tier II Green status, the highest status level from Ford Motor Co., under the guidelines of Ford’s new Reliability and Maintainability program.

—United Parcel Service (Atlanta, GA) received the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership from the U.S. Department of Commerce for its Welfare to Work programs in its facilities across the United States.

—Donald M. Duncanson, president of Dynacolor Graphics, Inc. (Miami, FL), has been named the Sheetfed Executive of the Year by the National Assn. for Printing Leadership and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (Sewickley, PA).

—Sertapak Group Packaging Systems (Woodstock, Ontario, Canada) was selected to receive the EnviroWise Award from the 2001 Packaging Assn. of Canada’s National Packaging Competition.

—Top Seal Corp. (Boyertown, PA) scored a perfect 100% compliance rating for its line of SecuRx child-resistant closures.

—Cognex Corp. (Natic, MA) has initiated “Cognex on Campus,” a program in which Cognex expects to donate up to $200ꯠ of machine vision equipment annually to colleges and universities around the world.

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