Eagle Ottawa Leather Company :What's New

EAGLE OTTAWA ANNOUNCES $100,000 DONATION TO JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND PACIFIC TSUNAMI FUND OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

Eagle Ottawa, LLC today announced a donation of $100,000 to the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund of the American Red Cross for disaster relief efforts currently underway.

The company also pledges to match donations from their employees who contribute to this fund to support this disaster effort.

"Our hearts go out to our customers and friends who are experiencing the devastating effects of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan," said Jerry Sumpter, President and CEO, Eagle Ottawa. "We are fortunate that our Eagle Ottawa family is safe but feel we have an important responsibility to support our customers and all of those affected by this disaster in Japan. We encourage our employees to give what they can to support this relief effort."

Matching Donations
Once you have made a donation, please provide a copy of your receipt to Jeffrey Barylak, VP of Strategic Marketing, Innovation and Communications, so we can make a matching donation. He can be reached at 248.364.7472 or BarylakJ@EagleOttawa.com.

To make a donation online, visit http://www.semredcross.org/

Eagle Ottawa Introduces Ansolé, Soil and Stain Resistant Leather

January 12, 2010 Auburn Hills, MI – Ansolé, a soil and stain resistant leather finish system. With automobile interiors trending toward lighter colors, there is a greater need for interior materials to resist soiling and staining - especially from denim. Eagle Ottawa developed the Ansolé finish system based on feedback from the automotive OEMs and tier-one customers. The company is currently showing the new product to its customers and expects Ansolé to be featured in several vehicles in the near future.

“Eagle Ottawa developed this product in response to our customers’ need to offer light colored interiors that resist soiling and staining and avoid customer dissatisfaction. Our proprietary finish system employs both physical and chemical technologies that create a surface that is highly immune to the attraction of soiling agents,” said Nathan Mullinix, Eagle Ottawa Vice President of Research and Development. “It has a pleasant soft touch and Ansolé meets all OEM engineering requirements and can be added to any current construction.”

Ansolé soil and stain resistant technology from Eagle Ottawa helps keep leather clean and makes it more cleanable once soiled. This is accomplished by adding an inherently soil-resistant character to the leather finishing system, not through a secondary coating. With Ansolé, light colored leathers are up to 65% more stain resistant and up to 75% more cleanable against denim dye transfer. In addition, with Ansolé, light colored leathers are up to 60% more stain resistant and up to 85% more cleanable against carbon based soiling.

Ansolé offers a variety of features that help to solve dye transfer and clean-ability issues with current leathers on the market.

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Eagle Ottawa, LLC Reinforces its Commitment to the Environment and Zero Deforestation

October 12, 2009 Auburn Hills, MI - Eagle Ottawa, LLC, in continuing with our longstanding history of environmental leadership in the automotive leather industry, has collaborated with Greenpeace to develop new procurement directives that will reinforce our position as the industry leader in environmental stewardship. Eagle Ottawa believes that these measures will have a positive impact on the environment, and support Greenpeace's efforts related to global climate change. Our collaboration with Greenpeace will result in the industry's first automotive leather supply chain in Brazil committed to Zero Deforestation.

Eagle Ottawa is committed to work with our supply base in Brazil to support a moratorium on any further deforestation in the Amazon Biome. Eagle Ottawa will require our supply base in Brazil to commit to this goal, and to implement a traceability program to confirm the origin of hides and leather supplied to Eagle Ottawa. Additionally, Eagle Ottawa will require suppliers to certify that each shipment of hides and leather to Eagle Ottawa is free of content acquired from newly deforested areas, areas of indigenous or protected lands, and suppliers using slave labor, or any other illegal labor practices.

Eagle Ottawa is passionate about protecting the environment and shares Greenpeace's concerns with the destruction of the Amazon. We will continue to collaborate with Greenpeace, our customers, supply chain, and government agencies to implement meaningful change to assure Zero Deforestation.

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Eagle Ottawa, LLC Reinforces its Commitment to the Environment and Zero Deforestation

August 5, 2009 Auburn Hills, MI – Eagle Ottawa, LLC, in continuing with our longstanding history of environmental leadership in the automotive leather industry, has released new procurement directives that will reinforce our position as the industry leader in environmental stewardship. These directives will provide the industry’s first automotive leather supply chain in Brazil committed to Zero Deforestation.

Eagle Ottawa is committed to work with our supply base in Brazil to support a moratorium on any further deforestation in the Amazon Biome. Eagle Ottawa will require our supply base in Brazil to commit to this goal, and to implement a traceability program to confirm the origin of hides and leather supplied to Eagle Ottawa. Additionally, Eagle Ottawa will require that suppliers certify that each shipment of hides and leather to Eagle Ottawa is free of content acquired from newly deforested areas, areas of indigenous or protected lands, and suppliers using slave labor, or any other illegal labor practices. These new policies will provide for the ongoing assurance of compliance with both Eagle Ottawa, and Brazilian legal requirements.

Eagle Ottawa is passionate about protecting the environment and shares Greenpeace’s concerns regarding the destruction of the Amazon. We will continue to collaborate with our customers, supply chain, government agencies and NGO’s to promote meaningful change to assure Zero Deforestation.

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EAGLE OTTAWA RECEIVES TOP AWARD FROM TOYOTA

Recognized for Value Improvement

Auburn Hills, MI (March 28, 2008): Eagle Ottawa, the world's largest supplier of automotive leather, received a coveted Excellent Value Improvement Award from Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) at the company's Annual Supplier Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony held in Covington, Kentucky, on March 4.

The awards recognize those suppliers who exceeded the company's expectations in the following areas: Lauch performance, Technology, Supplier Diversity, Value Improvement and Quality. Toyota's annual event brings together approximately 500 North American suppliers to communicate objectives for the current year, recognize top supplier performance for the prior year and enhance relationships.

"TEMA works closely with our North American suppliers in order to build our top quality vehicles; therefore, we take this opportunity to recognize outstanding performance of our top suppliers," stated Atsushi "Art" Kume, Senior Vice President of TEMA. “Suppliers' commitment to continuous improvement is key to achieving Toyota's long term focus on quality and value.”

Toyota established operations in North America in 1957 and currently operates 13 manufacturing plants. In addition, new plants are under construction in Ontario, Canada and Mississippi. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America which sold more than 2.9 million vehicles in 2007.

Toyota directly employs over 43,000 in North America and its investment here is currently valued at more than $21 billion, including sales and manufacturing operations, research and development, financial services and design. Toyota's annual purchasing of parts, materials, goods and services from North American suppliers totals more than $30 billion per year.

Toyota currently produces 11 vehicles in North America, including the Avalon, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Corolla, Matrix, Sienna, Solara, Sequoia, Tacoma, Tundra and the Lexus RX 350. When production begins in Ontario and Mississippi, Toyota will have 15 manufacturing plants with the annual capacity to build approximately 2.2 million cars and trucks, 1.49 million engines and 425,000 automatic transmissions. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyota.com.

EAGLE OTTAWA LEATHER IN TOP 2008 VEHICLES OF THE YEAR

Auburn Hills based Leather Company Provides Leather for Award Winning Vehicles

Auburn Hills, MI: January 14, 2008: Across the board, Eagle Ottawa, the world’s largest automotive leather supplier, headquartered in Auburn Hills, MI, has upholstered the interiors of the most acclaimed 2008 vehicles.

Just announced, the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) has named Chevrolet Malibu the Car of the Year. The all-new, redesigned Malibu includes a completely reinvented cockpit featuring Eagle Ottawa’s luxurious “tipped” leather.

Runners up for Car of the Year are Cadillac CTS and Honda Accord. Both the CTS and Accord 2-door also boast Eagle Ottawa leather in their award-winning interiors.

Notable, too, is Eagle Ottawa’s inclusion in many of the applauded cars and trucks of the year in the industry’s top publications and auto shows that award honors (see partial list below).

Vice-President of Design Pat Oldenkamp has long had a reputation for combining couture with vehicle interior design. "The trend for softer, more fashion- and furniture-oriented materials inside cars is evident everywhere. Malibu's bold, sporty new interior with two-tone, tipped seat inserts are a prime example of converting high-fashion into car-fashion. Eagle Ottawa is right on target with this phenomenon – it explains why our leather is in so many award winning cars and trucks."

Award winning vehicles with Eagle Ottawa Leather (Partial Listing)
North American International Auto Show:

Car of the Year: Chevrolet Malibu (and in both the runners-up Cadillac CTS and Honda Accord 2-Door)

Runner up Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid

Motor Trend

Truck of the Year Winner:

Toyota Tundra

Car of the Year Winner:

Cadillac CTS

LA Auto Show

2008 Green Car of the Year®: Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid

Car and Driver

2008 10 Best Cars