KEMET Receives TTI North America's 2007 Supplier Excellence Award
Marks 13th Consecutive Year of Receiving this Award
Greenville, SC (July 1, 2008) - KEMET Corporation (NYSE:KEM) is proud to announce that it has been awarded TTI's Supplier Excellence Award for North America at the Platinum level. This coveted award represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI. Reaching the platinum level is a very special accomplishment, as it requires receiving the award for at least five consecutive years. KEMET has actually received the award for 13 consecutive years.
"We are very proud to once again receive this award and to be recognized by TTI as one of their most trusted and valued supplier partners," said KEMET Chief Executive Officer Per-Olof Loof. "Being the only TTI supplier who has earned this recognition each year since the program began in 1995 is particularly gratifying. At KEMET, we have always and will continue to put our focus on ensuring customer satisfaction. To us, that is priority number one!"
"Achievement of this award not only represents the dedication of all KEMET
Electronics employees to TTI," said Melanie M. Pizzey, Vice
President-Global Product Operations, TTI, Inc., "but also management's commitment and overall operating philosophy for excellence by allocation of resources allowing employees the opportunity to do the right thing in order to ensure customer satisfaction."
About TTI
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, TTI, Inc. is the largest distributor specialist of passive, interconnect and electromechanical components. TTI is the distributor of choice for industrial and consumer electronic manufacturers worldwide. TTI's extensive product line includes: resistors, capacitors, connectors, potentiometers, trimmers, magnetic circuit protection components, wire and cable, identification products, application tools, electromechanical and discrete semiconductor devices. TTI is recognized as the industry's leader in service and quality and provides a broad array of supply chain services to its customer base. TTI employs 1,700 with more than 50 locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia. TTI is a Berkshire Hathaway Company. For more information about TTI visit www.ttiinc.com.
About KEMET:
KEMET Corporation applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around t he world. KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. KEMET's common stock is listed on The New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol KEM. Additional information can be found at www.kemet.com.
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