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Clarience Technologies Honored with Wabash’s 2024 Platinum Supplier Award

Wabash presented the 2024 Platinum Supplier Award to Clarience Technologies during Wabash’s 2025 Annual Conference.

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Clarience Technologies received the Wabash 2024 Platinum Supplier Award at a recent conference. Truck-Lite, a Clarience Technologies company, has now earned the Platinum Supplier Award 12 times.

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Clarience Technologies was recently awarded the Platinum Supplier Award from Wabash for 2024 at during its 2025 Annual Conference. The award recognizes the company’s outstanding commitment to innovation, quality, and performance. 

Truck-Lite, a Clarience Technologies company, has received the Platinum Supplier Award 12 times and has previously won the Pinnacle Award as well. 

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“Truck-Lite has been a valued partner for decades,” said Richard Mansilla, vice president of global supply chain at Wabash. “Their solutions have consistently supported our ability to deliver high-performing trailers, and their focus on innovation continues to strengthen our collaboration. This award reflects not only their reliability, but also their role in advancing transportation technology alongside us.”

Truck-Lite: Lighting Supplier of Choice

Truck-Lite has been a longtime leader in advanced lighting and harness solutions. Clarience Technologies said this consistency played a key role in this achievement through its decades-long partnership with Wabash—a relationship spanning more than 40 years and built on shared values and trusted collaboration.

Since 1985, Truck-Lite has been the lighting supplier of choice for Wabash, a world-class manufacturer of advanced engineered solutions and services for transportation, logistics, and infrastructure markets, with capabilities recognized for innovation, reliability, and industry expertise.  

Today, Clarience Technologies offers a wide variety of transportation solutions across all Wabash value streams. Collectively, the partnership has developed several innovations that have propelled the commercial transportation industry forward.

“For over 70 years, Truck-Lite has committed to delivering value to our customers through engineering and manufacturing excellence, and cutting-edge technology,” said Jon Stineman, president at Truck-Lite. “Being recognized by Wabash with their 2024 supplier award is a testament to the trust we’ve built, the continued collaboration between our companies, and the relentless drive for innovation we share.”

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Truck-Lite’s advanced LED lighting products are standard on all Wabash trailers.
Truck-Lite lighting solutions have illuminated over 1 million trailers built through this partnership, with approximately half a million still on the road today.

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