Exporting POWER: COGENT LEADS WITH LEAN AND A CUSTOMER FOCUS

摘要

How does a lean journey result in a company's export success? The answer might surprise you. Ron Harper, president of Cogent Power Inc., beamed as he accepted the 2015 Ontario Export Award for Leadership last November. Between 2011 and 2014, Cogent's US exports - mainly transformer cores for power generation utilities - grew more than 250%. Since September, Cogent's growth energized its leaders to expand facilities to include a new 125,000 square-foot plant next to an existing 110,000-square-foot one in Burlington, Ont.