New Delhi: Gabriel India Ltd. won the first prize in the medium size category of FICCI Quality Systems Excellence Awards for 2012 for manufacturing a second time in a row. The award was presented by Shri Saurabh Chandra, Secretary Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to Mr. Manoj Kolhatkar, MD Gabriel India Limited and Mr. PLR Reddy, Plant Head, Gabriel India Limited at the ceremony held in New Delhi.

According to Mr. Manoj Kolhatkar, MD Gabriel India Ltd, “We are proud to receive this prestigious award. We at Gabriel are very focused in ensuring high standards of quality in manufacturing processes. This award is a testimony to our conscious efforts to ensure high standards of quality in all our systems and processes.

Quality Council of India is the Knowledge Partner for these awards. Some of the key parameters that are being looked at for these awards are customer focus, effectiveness of customer related processes in organizations; the motivation and implication of top management; capability to assess suppliers’ capabilities to meet product and service requirement on a continuing basis; ensuring effective, testing, calibration and inspection activities; the process approach and continual improvement; quality risk management process etc. These quality systems help ensure that customers get consistent, good quality products and services.

This year 79 companies applied for these awards as against 63 in the last edition. Applicants came from twelve broad sectors of manufacturing i.e. automotive, cement, steel, engineering, electronics, chemicals, FMCG, Tyres, Paper, Refinery, Food and Textiles.  The awards are given after a three stage rigorous process of document evaluation; on-site audit and finally Jury’s decision. Jury was chaired by Mr Surendra Singh, Former Cabinet Secretary to Government of India.

Gabriel manufactures a wide variety of suspension products Shock Absorbers and Front Fork that are precision engineered and ride-tuned to meet the growing demands of today’s customers.