C. Thorrez Industries Earns 2025 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award

Jackson, Michigan machined products manufacturer recognized among GM's best-performing suppliers for 2025 quality performance

Jackson, Michigan, United States, July 10, 2026 -- C. Thorrez Industries, Inc., a family-owned precision machined products manufacturer in Jackson, Michigan producing industrial parts since 1919, has been selected to receive the 2025 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award (SQEA). The recognition honors the company's Concord manufacturing operation for its quality performance throughout the 2025 calendar year and places C. Thorrez Industries among the suppliers General Motors identified as its strongest performers for the year.

According to General Motors, the Supplier Quality Excellence Award is reserved for suppliers that delivered exceptional quality performance in 2025 and distinguished themselves among the automaker's best-performing suppliers. In its award notification, GM stated that recipients demonstrated a sustained commitment to excellence, consistency, and partnership throughout the 2025 calendar year. The company noted that suppliers earned the recognition in what it described as a dynamic and demanding operating environment, and that their performance reflected the highest standard of execution.

The award was signed by Rick Demuynck, Executive Director of Global Supplier Quality and Development, and Timothy Haworth, Director of Supplier Quality, Propulsion and Electrification, at General Motors.

Recognized for Quality and Partnership

In its notification, General Motors' Global Supplier Quality Team credited C. Thorrez Industries with a dedication to quality and strong support of shared objectives, noting the important role the company plays in the automaker's collective success. GM thanked the company for being a trusted and valued partner and said it looked forward to building on the momentum of the 2025 results together. General Motors also invited award recipients to share the recognition across their broader organizations.

For automotive suppliers, recognition of this kind reflects sustained, measurable quality maintained across an entire production year rather than a single milestone, which makes year-long acknowledgment a meaningful benchmark for a manufacturing operation. Precision machined products are components manufactured to tight dimensional tolerances for use in finished assemblies, and consistency in producing them is central to the quality standards automakers apply to their suppliers. That work depends on repeatable accuracy from one production run to the next.

A Family-Owned Manufacturer Since 1919

C. Thorrez Industries is a family-owned and operated machined products company that has produced industrial parts since 1919. More than a century after its founding, it continues to operate as a family business, serving manufacturers across several industries from multiple plant operations. That footprint gives the company the capacity to handle long-run, high-volume production alongside short-run and prototype work, allowing it to support both large-scale programs and specialized, lower-volume requirements from a single supplier base.

The company's quality and environmental management systems are registered to IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001. IATF 16949 is the automotive industry's quality management standard, developed specifically for the design and manufacture of automotive parts, while ISO 9001 sets out general quality management requirements and ISO 14001 addresses environmental management. Together, these registrations reflect a structured approach to quality and process control, which the company credits, along with its focus on delivery and continuous improvement, with helping it achieve a world-class parts-per-million (PPM) quality level.

The General Motors recognition adds to a broader record of quality awards. C. Thorrez Industries has earned multiple quality awards from Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors, as well as from many Tier 1 automotive suppliers and from truck, heavy equipment, and furniture manufacturers. That range reflects a customer base extending well beyond a single sector of the transportation industry, and the 2025 SQEA reinforces the company's standing as a General Motors supplier as it continues that work.

About C. Thorrez Industries, Inc.

C. Thorrez Industries, Inc. is a family-owned manufacturer of precision machined products, producing industrial parts since 1919. Based in Jackson, Michigan, the company serves automotive, truck, heavy equipment, and furniture manufacturers through multiple plant operations, with quality and environmental management systems registered to IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001. Learn more at https://thorrez.com.

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