TriMas Aerospace Receives Supplier Award From Airbus

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., March 15, 2018 -- TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) today announced that its Monogram Aerospace Fasteners business was awarded a 2017 Supply Chain & Quality Improvement Award from Airbus.

“We are extremely honored to receive this award from Airbus,” said Thomas Amato, TriMas president and chief executive officer. “This award recognizes our significant efforts to improve quality and on-time delivery, and our commitment to deliver outstanding service to our customers. We thank Airbus for this award and look forward to continuing to partner on innovative fastener solutions.”

The award was presented to the TriMas Aerospace management team at a recent ceremony in Toulouse, France.

TriMas’ Monogram Aerospace Fasteners business was recognized with a “Best Improved Supplier” award, which showed high industrial performance improvement in 2017, among all of Airbus’ suppliers. This accomplishment included completing all program deliverables and improving on-time delivery. Monogram was selected out of approximately 650 suppliers for its exceptional quality and delivery performance.

“Our Monogram Aerospace Fasteners team has worked extremely hard to achieve this major accomplishment, and we’re grateful for their hard work and dedication. It motivates us to continue our efforts in striving for operational excellence,” said John Schaefer, president of TriMas Aerospace.

TriMas Aerospace sells under four brands: Monogram Aerospace Fasteners™, Allfast Fastening Systems®, Mac Fasteners™, and Martinic Engineering™, and designs, develops and manufactures precision engineered components including blind bolts, fasteners, solid and blind rivets, and hydraulic and pneumatic systems, to serve commercial aircraft companies, suppliers and distributors, and U.S. and allied militaries.

About TriMas
TriMas is a diversified industrial manufacturer of products for customers in the consumer products, aerospace, industrial, petrochemical, refinery and oil & gas end markets with approximately 4,000 dedicated employees in 13 countries. We provide customers with a wide range of innovative and quality product solutions through our market-leading businesses, which we report in three segments: Packaging, Aerospace and Specialty Products. The TriMas family of businesses has strong brand names in the markets served, and operates under a common set of values and strategic priorities under the TriMas Business Model. TriMas is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “TRS,” and is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.trimascorp.com.

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