Organizational Business Excellence continues to be a strategic thrust of First Philec. The company has adopted the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Program as its overall framework for evaluating and implementing improvements in its business processes leading towards organizational excellence. In 2008, First Sumiden Circuits, Inc. received the Oscar M. Lopez Award for Performance Excellence, the Lopez Group’s equivalent of the Baldrige Award in the United States. FSCI is the first among the Lopez Group companies to have received the award.

First Philec envisions an enterprise of excellence, of continuous innovation not only to remain competitive but to achieve leadership in its focus industries.