Dear MAAG Americas Team:
I hope that all of you are having a great summer and get a chance to spend some vacation time with your families!
As we are continuing our journey to reach the goals for the year, I wanted to take some time to reflect on our first year together. In this past year, I saw tremendous commitment from all our teams in the Americas taking on a tough Annual Operating Plan (AOP) budget in a challenging business environment. With your help we were able to grow the business, reduce our lead times, improve quality, keep costs under control, and together we also improved our operating margins. This put us in a good spot for the remainder of this year as well as going into 2025. The management team worked hard to put you – our people – into the focus; we increased training opportunities, internal career developments, and started renovating your workplaces – all of which will continue to be a key focus of our attention. Most of these initiatives came as results of our listening sessions and internal surveys. We also invested in new equipment to modernize our operations with an automated disk grinder in Kent and robotic welding in Eagle Rock as examples.
There is still a lot to be done! I am excited to be on this journey with you. After all, it is YOU that make the difference!
Paul Merich
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