MONTGOMERY, AL-Employees at Lear Corp.'s Montgomery automotive seat manufacturing plant recently took some time off from work to celebrate their new status as ASSEMBLY magazine's 2006 Assembly Plant of the Year. Local politicians and several executives from Lear's Southfield, MI, headquarters were also on hand to mark the event. As part of the festivities, ASSEMBLY magazine senior editor Austin Weber and publisher, Tom Esposito, presented plant officials with an engraved crystal trophy and commemorative banner.
Lear Montgomery is the first automotive supplier to win the award. It is also the first plant in the South to be honored by ASSEMBLY. Previous recipients of the award were Kenworth Truck Co. (Renton, WA) and Xerox Corp. (Webster, NY).