JIPM presents the awards to companies across the globe that have made outstanding progress in using TPM methodology to secure marked improvements in productivity, product quality, plant efficiency, environmental performance or organizational.Tetra Pak’s La Rioja plant in Argentina received the prestigious Advanced Special Award for TPM Achievement, reflecting the success they have seen since they began implementing TPM methodology in 2000.During his keynote presentation at the Awards ceremony earlier today, Marcelo Loiacono, Production Manager at the La Rioja factory said: “We started adopting the TPM methodology twelve years ago. Since then, we have turned one of Tetra Pak’s smallest converting plants into a facility, which offers the shortest market lead time for customers. This achievement wouldn’t have been possible without a team-wide commitment to continuously driving operational performance improvement, supplying products of the highest quality, in the fastest lead-time, at the lowest possible cost.”Tetra Pak’s Beijing plant also picked up a top honour, receiving the Special Award for TPM Achievement. The plant’s outstanding performance has significantly reduced capacity losses and inefficiencies, while at the same time creating a better working environment for operators.The JIPM is the world’s leading organization for production management evaluation and certification and among the world’s most authoritative institutes for the evaluation of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) production implementation. All Tetra Pak TPM Excellence Awards Winners are: Tetra Pak La Rioja, Argentina, Tetra Pak Beijing, China, Tetra Pak Limburg, Germany, Tetra Pak Danube Budaörs, Hungary, Tetra Pak Iberia Envases, Spain, Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions, Lund, Sweden, Tetra Pak Taiwan, Tetra Pak Gotemba, Japan, Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions. Modena, Italy, Tetra Pak Inventing, Denmark, and Tetra Pak Materials, Sikeston, United States.