A legacy of quality excellence spanning 15 years (G.A. Richards Industrial Operations) and 9 total award years (Corlett Turner).
G.A. Richards Group is proud to announce that both our Industrial stamping division, G.A. Richards Industrial Operations (6830 Grand Haven Rd, Norton Shores, MI 49456) and our precision machining division, Corlett Turner, have received the 2025 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award (SQEA).
This marks an extraordinary milestone. This achievement is a testament to the dedication and discipline across our entire organization and reflects our unified culture of quality that makes recognition from one of the world’s most demanding automotive manufacturers possible.
Legacy of Quality and Continuous Improvement
The GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award is not handed out lightly. It recognizes suppliers who consistently meet or exceed General Motors’ rigorous quality and performance standards throughout the calendar year. To receive this award once is a major achievement. To earn it repeatedly displays a deeply embedded culture of quality, reliability and ongoing improvement across all our operations.
This recognition is the result of disciplined execution day in and day out and it requires the client to consistently deliver perfect parts and maintain high performance standards year-round and not just during isolated periods of production. This is what sets G.A. Richards Group apart.
Corlett Turner and G.A. Richards Industrial Operations obtained this recognition based on outstanding 2025 performance metrics:
- Zero Defects: Maintaining perfect and near-perfect part quality scores.
- On-Time Delivery: Meeting GM’s production schedules consistently.
- Responsiveness: Addressing any production or supply chain needs quickly.
What This Means for Our Partners
For current and future partners of G.A. Richards Group, this award confirms three critical things:
- System-Level Excellence: Earning the GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award proves that our quality management systems work in practice across all divisions.
- Long Lasting Reliability: This level of consistency is not luck. It is the product of disciplined processes, skilled machinists and a company-wide commitment to getting it right the first time.
- Supply Chain Confidence: When you source from a G.A. Richards Group facility, you are sourcing from a supplier that has been vetted and validated by one of the most quality-focused organizations in the world.
Thank You to Our Team
This award belongs to every machinist, quality inspector, engineer and support team member who shows up every day committed to operational excellence. Manufacturing precision parts at automotive scale requires focus, discipline and pride in workmanship, qualities our entire G.A. Richards Group team has in abundance.
We also thank General Motors for their continued partnership and for setting a standard of quality that pushes us all to be better.
Looking Ahead
Across our divisions, earning the GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award is a milestone worth celebrating. But at G.A. Richards Group, we are already focused on the future. Quality is a daily discipline. We look forward to continuing to serve GM and our broader customer base with the same precision, reliability and commitment that earned this recognition.
About G.A. Richards Group: G.A. Richards Group is backed by more than 120 years of manufacturing experience, we deliver high-quality, custom manufacturing solutions to customers across the automotive, office furniture, aerospace, healthcare, agriculture, and industrial sectors.. Our U.S.-based facilities combine decades of machining expertise with modern quality systems to produce components that perform when it matters most.
About the GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award: The SQEA recognizes suppliers who demonstrate exceptional quality performance and system-level excellence. Recipients are evaluated on a range of metrics including defect rates, delivery performance and responsiveness.
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