LENOIR — The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) awarded Teijin Automotive Technologies' Lenoir facility with its AME Excellence Award. The Teijin Automotive facility is the world's first composites and molding manufacturing facility to win this award, which has been given out annually since 2010.

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