Hitachi High-Tech Corporation Receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award

TOKYO Japan, March 5, 2020 –Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) has been recognized by Intel as a recipient of a 2019 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. The PQS award recognizes companies like Hitachi High-Tech that Intel believes have relentlessly pursued excellence and conducted business with resolute professionalism.

“I am pleased to recognize the winners of Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award for 2019,” said Dr. Randhir Thakur, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Global Supply Chain at Intel. “The commitment to continuous improvement and the rich collaboration with these suppliers remain crucial factors in enabling Intel to bring exciting products to market and meet the needs of our customers.”

To qualify for PQS status, suppliers must exceed high expectations and uncompromising performance goals while scoring at least 80 percent on an integrated report card that assesses performance throughout the year. Suppliers must also achieve 80 percent or greater on a challenging continuous improvement plan and demonstrate solid quality and business systems. Additional information is available at the Intel Newsroom.

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About Hitachi High-Tech Corporation

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is engaged in activities in a broad range of fields, including Analytical & Medical Solutions (manufacture and sales of clinical analyzers, biotechnology products, and analytical instruments), Nano-Technology Solutions (manufacture and sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and analysis equipment), and Industrial Solutions (providing high value-added solutions in fields of social & industrial infrastructures and mobility, etc.). The company's consolidated revenues for FY 2018 were approx. JPY 731.1 billion [USD 6.6 billion].
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