2008-07-09 - It was the fourth time Mett in Australia had been nominated as a GM supplier of the year
It was the only local company of the 97 GM named, out of about 10,000 GM suppliers around the world. Mett supplies GMH with oil pan assemblies, engine front cover assemblies and various brackets. It is planning to export the same engine covers to the US for installation on V6 engines almost identical to the Commodore.
Mr Schulter said that when he was in the US accepting the award, he was asked how Mett could manage to compete with the low labour costs of China.
"I said we use less labour, or none at all. We use robots."
Mett had more than 50 robots and, without them, would have to employ double its 300-person workforce, Mr Schulter said.
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