The Mexican Institute for Quality Control recently announced the winners of the International Asia Pacific Quality Awards for 2006. The annual award program is sponsored by the Asia Pacific Quality Organization and administered by the Walter L. Hurd Foundation. Judges use the Baldrige criteria to assess candidate organizations based on their leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, human resource focus, process management and business results. Candidates for the award must also have already won a national or regional Baldrige award in the past three years.

The 2006 IAPQA winners are:

• Tata Chemicals of India
• Elegant Textile Inc. of Indonesia
• Yanzhou Coal Mining Co.
• Hanaka Electric Equipment Factory
• ITESM-Mexico
• CENDI No. 3-Mexico
• CENDI No. 5-Mexico
• NYK-FIL Ship Management Inc.

The winners will participate at the Mexico Asia Pacific Total Quality Seminar, to be held Oct. 4–7 in Tijuana City. The winners will be presented with the awards at the APQO International Conference and QUALCON 2006, which are being held jointly in Sydney, Oct. 18–20.

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