{"id":10040,"date":"2017-12-25T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2017-12-25T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T22:34:32","slug":"littlestar-utc-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/littlestar-utc-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Littlestar Plastics earns rare supplier recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MACHESNEY PARK \u2014 Littlestar Plastics, which has been designing and manufacturing plastic parts and components by machining and injection-molding for 26 years, has been lauded by United Technologies Corp. for its dedication to quality.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Littlestar learned in December that it earned the UTC Gold Supplier designation, an increasingly tough honor to receive and a recognition rarely given out.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5615 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo.jpg 717w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-209x146.jpg 209w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-50x35.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Littlestar_Logo-108x75.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UTC supplier for more than 20 years won its first Gold certification in 2009. In the past couple of years, UTC tightened the Gold standards and required all suppliers to reapply. To qualify for the new Gold Supplier status, suppliers must have:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">0 escapes (no quality rejections) for the past 12 months.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">100 percent on-time delivery for the past 12 months.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scored at least a 6 out of 7 in Customer Satisfaction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scored 80 percent or higher on a Supplier Health Assessment in each UTC category.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How hard has it been to hit all these metrics? According to UTC, Littlestar is only the 20th of more than 4,500 companies supplying its UTC Aerospace Systems segment to be designated as UTC Gold.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCompanies come to Littlestar because we can do work others can\u2019t do on timelines others can\u2019t meet,\u201d Littlestar owner Phil Preston said. \u201cQuality is always the top priority. We wouldn\u2019t have a 20-year relationship with UTC if what we produced wasn\u2019t the best in the industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preston founded Littlestar in 1991 and works with companies in industries ranging from off-highway to medical to fuel cells. Its major work, however, is found in food service and the high-precision field of aerospace. Littlestar components are found on nearly every airplane built in the Western Hemisphere and on almost every fast-food ice cream machine.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connecticut-based United Technologies is a $57.2 billion company that makes everything from elevators and escalators to commercial and military engines. Its UTC Aerospace Systems produces engine controls and flight systems for military and commercial clients.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MACHESNEY PARK \u2014 Littlestar Plastics, which has been designing and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/littlestar-utc-gold\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}