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NHBB Announces Integrated Business Management System

March 13, 2006 -- Peterborough, NH. New Hampshire Ball Bearings (NHBB) HiTech Division is pleased to announce confirmation of an Integrated Business Management System from their registrar, BSI Management Systems, the world's leading international standards, testing, registration and certification organization.

The Integrated Business Management System combines the already registered Quality Management System per AS9100 Rev. B and Environmental Management System per ISO 14001:2004. NHBB has been implicitly working to these combined standards for several years.

Bert Broderick, HiTech Quality Manager explains, “Rather than being mutually exclusive, as these standards were when they were first written, the most recent updates actually have a lot of overlap. Impacts to the environment were always considered as part of any continuous improvement activities and product integrity was always considered as part of any environmental regulatory review, so in the end, it made sense to integrate them.” As a result of the integration, HiTech realizes 20% less audit days per year.

The representatives of BSI made extremely favorable comments regarding the cleanliness and organization of the HiTech facility, praising the workforce for being actively engaged in both the Quality and Environmental systems, and pronouncing the training materials developed for this process based internal audit system as world class.

NHBB HiTech Division is not only one of the first manufacturing companies in New Hampshire to attain this elite status, it is the first bearing company to have any of its divisions registered by BSI.