Welcome to this week's Continuous Improvement newsletter. I want to remind you that we have launched the 2025 IndustryWeek Best Plants Awards competition. The entry form is comprehensive, so if you are thinking of participating, I urge you to get started now. It is not an application you can complete in 30 minutes.

For those of you who are interested in seeing what kinds of questions we ask on the entry form, I am including a link to a PDF that may prove useful. It's for reference only.

Finally, at the end of this newsletter, I've included the story of one of our 2024 winners, Hoffer Plastics. The article illustrates one way in which we celebrate our IW Best Plants winners.

— Jill Jusko, jjusko@industryweek.com