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Borouge has been awarded four international certificates in recognition of its strong commitment to ensuring employees’ health and safety at workplaces and effectively managing its quality performance and reliable control of environmental impacts.
Borouge has been awarded two OHSAS 18001:2007 certificates in recognition of its Occupational Health & Safety Management System. The certificates were handed over to Borouge by ABS Quality Evaluations, a USA-based international certification and auditing body, upon auditing the rigorous implementation of Borouge’s Health & Safety Management System upholding its commitment to safe operations at the Company’s plants in Ruwais as well as its offices across the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.
Another two ISO 9001: 2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certificates were granted by RINA Services to the Borouge Innovation Centre in recognition of its quality and environmental management systems. The certification helps companies have a systematic approach to continuous improvement of their operations, customer satisfaction, environmental controls and effective, corrective and preventive actions on the identified and potential nonconformities.
“We are very proud to be granted four prestigious certifications by two international certification bodies in recognition of our management systems at Borouge’s operation facilities and offices as well as our Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi,” said Ahmed Omar Abdulla, CEO Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge). “This achievement is another milestone in the history of Borouge and it’s all attributed to the team work of our dedicated people who were fully committed to maintain a safe workplace at our operational plants in Ruwais and Shanghai as well as at our offices in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.”
“Receiving these credible certifications from international auditing organisations strongly reflect the increasing competitiveness and importance of Borouge as a leading petrochemical company which has never known any stop in its journey towards achieving excellence,” said Wim Roels, CEO Borouge Pte Ltd. “The four granted certificates prove Borouge’s exceptional capability of bringing value and quality to the industry while acting as a role model in ensuring the highest standards of safety and environmental stewardship with regards to operations, marketing and sales as well as innovation hub.”
Expressions of pride by the contributing teams at Borouge
Abdulrahman Essa Al Ateek, Acting Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs and Vice President Quality Management, Borouge, said “The successful accomplishment of receiving the ISO 9001:2008 certification for our Innovation Centre is a significant step forward in our journey towards excellence and for the first time all Borouge operations are ISO 9001:2008 certified.”
Hussain Al Hammadi, Vice President Corporate HSE, Borouge, said “This is another milestone in the history of Borouge and we are extremely proud of our team and their efforts to attain the OHSAS 18001 certification which we achieved without applying any changes to our existing Health, Safety and Environment Management System vindicated that our system is robust, proven and being effectively implemented across our facilities.”
Hamda Al Shamsi, Vice President, Corporate Audit & Assurance, Borouge, said “Obtaining the coveted OHSAS 18001 certificate from ABS Quality Evaluations is a demonstration of this commitment to keep people and asset safe at all times, while the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications granted by RINA Services to the Borouge Innovation Centre proves the importance and brilliant efforts that our creative people at the Centre have achieved pursuing excellence in everything they do.”
Dr Thorsten Loehl, Vice President Innovation, Borouge, said “Awarding our Borouge Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi with these significant ISO certificates by RINA Services as the external audit authority, reflects our firm commitment to maintain a robust management system along with highest environmental, HSE and quality standards. They also embody Borouge’s vital contribution through its Innovation Centre to the development of a knowledge-based economy in the UAE as a company focused on ‘value creation through people and innovation’.”
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For further information, please contact:
Rehab Omar Ateeq, Regional Communications Manager MEAE, Borouge
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Rehab.Ateeq@borouge.com
About Borouge
Borouge is a leading petrochemical company that provides innovative, value creating plastics solutions. A joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s major oil and gas companies, and Austria based Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, Borouge is a ground breaking joint venture at the forefront of the next generation of plastics innovation.
With its base in the United Arab Emirates and Marketing & Sales head office in Singapore, Borouge employs more than 3,000 people representing over 40 nationalities and serves customers in 50 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Building on the unique Borstar® and Borlink™ technologies and over 50 years of experience in polyolefins, Borouge provides innovative, sustainable and value creating plastics solutions for infrastructure (pipe systems, and power and communication cables), automotive and advanced packaging applications that address global challenges such as climate change, food protection, access to fresh water, energy conservation, healthcare and waste management.
In 2010 Borouge tripled the annual production capacity of its plant in Abu Dhabi to 2 million tonnes, and with the further expansion that started in 2014 and increased the annual capacity to 4.5 million tonnes, Borouge and Borealis have a combined annual production capacity of approximately 8 million tonnes of polyethylene and polypropylene.
Borouge is expanding its commercial and logistics network in the Middle East and Asia and investing in its Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi and Application Centre in Shanghai. Focused on our company mission, Value Creation through Innovation, we ensure that our customers throughout the value chain, around the world, can rely on differentiated products and reliability of supply.
Borouge is committed to the principles of sustainability and is a signatory of the chemical industry’s Responsible Care® Global Charter. Together with Borealis, Borouge is proactively addressing the world’s water and sanitation challenges through the Water for the World™ initiative.
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