Quality Chekd Dairies Awards

2018 Quality Chekd Irving B. Weber Distinguished Award for Quality Excellence Finalists

The evaluation criteria for the Weber Award is modeled after the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Award process. Named after Quality Chekd Dairies first board president, the Irving B. Weber Award recognizes the top three trademark member dairy plants that have earned the highest annual scores from Quality Chekd in the areas of business leadership, quality, sustainability, customer/consumer satisfaction, employee safety, and personnel development.The following dairy processors have been named as finalists:

Belfonte Dairy, Kansas City, Missouri
Hiland Dairy Foods Company, Little Rock, Arkansas
Umpqua Dairy Products, Roseburg, Oregon

Quality Chekd will present the Weber Award during the Awards Gala November 6, 2018.

Production Excellence Award Finalists

The Quality Chekd Production Excellence Award recognizes outstanding processors in three categories: fluid milk, ice cream and cultured dairy products. The winner of each category will be decided based on selection criteria that includes a plant audit, evaluation of all plant processes and systems for assuring product quality evaluation results. The following processors are finalists for the Production Excellence Award:

Fluid Milk Category

Hiland Dairy Foods Company, Omaha, Nebraska
Prairie Farms Dairy, Anderson, Indiana
Prairie Farms Dairy, Dubuque, Iowa

Ice Cream Category

Belfonte Dairy, Kansas City, Missouri
Lochmead Dairy, Junction City, Oregon
Umpqua Dairy Products, Roseburg, Oregon

Cultured Dairy Category

Prairie Farms Dairy, Quincy, Illinois
Sunshine Dairy Foods, Portland, Oregon
Umpqua Dairy Products, Roseburg, Oregon

Quality Chekd will present the Production Excellence Awards during the Awards Gala November 6, 2018.