Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast

Operational, Financial Excellence in Building Materials Manufacturing

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Armstrong World Industries set a goal, nearly a decade ago, to be an outlier, the kind of company that maintains 5% profit growth for five or more years. Those efforts have paid off with the ceiling-tile and architectural components making landing No. 2 in IndustryWeek’s annual IW U.S. 50 Best Manufacturers list.

Vic Grizzle, CEO of Armstrong, sat down with IndustryWeek’s Robert Schoenberger to discuss the management philosophy behind that performance. Some key elements:

  • Investing in the business: Armstrong dedicates more of its cashflow to operational improvements than many of its peers, part of an annual push to increase productivity by about 3% every year
  • Championing stability: Customers and employees know what to expect from a company that has stable management and rarely changes big-picture strategies
  • Adaptability: While it champions stability, Armstrong also looks for adjacent opportunities, experiments with new technologies and constantly updates its processes
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    Great Question: A Manufacturing PodcastBy Endeavor Business Media’s Manufacturing Group
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