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As a pigment supplier we are bound by numerous regulations, codes
of practise, Standards and other legal requirements that relate
to the quality and purity of our products and the environmental
impact of our business. These can apply both internally, to our
people, and externally to our customers, suppliers, contractors
and to the public. This legislation ensures that our manufacturing
processes and our products are all monitored. Therefore, our compliance
with the demands of all the laws and rules that currently apply
to our business can be demonstrated.
Our management systems are approved to ISO 9001:2000, at all our
manufacturing sites, and operate to ISO 14001:2004 at our UK sites.
This means that we are better equipped to achieve our goals of meeting
legislative requirements as well as satisfying our customers' requirements.
Consequently we are obliged to be selective of raw materials and
suppliers, have good control over our processes, carry out appropriate
testing of our final products and consider how the environmental
impacts of the business can be reduced. Purchased raw materials,
made under commercial industrial conditions, may contain unavoidable,
trace amounts of hazardous contaminants. However, every effort is
made is made to ensure that the content is minimised. Our processes
are designed to be as efficient as possible in the use of energy
with waste being minimised and effluent being as clean as possible.
Our pigments are monitored during manufacture by Production, to
ensure that the processes are being followed correctly, and by Quality
Control, to make sure that the pigment produced conforms to its
Standard. The test methods used by QC reflect the customers' end-use(s)
of the particular pigment. In addition all new products are tested
analytically to determine their compliance with the purity criteria
in the regulations that apply to certain sensitive applications,
e.g. toys and food packaging. Periodically they are re-tested to
ensure continuing compliance.
All areas of our company; factory, laboratory and offices, are subject
to safety assessments, according to regional requirements. These
identify what hazards there are, if any, assess the risks posed
by those hazards and prescribe the measures required to provide
a safe working environment. In the UK, to meet the requirements
of the ISO 14001 Standard and of the PPC permits, environmental
audits are also carried out regularly to ensure that progress towards
the targets set is maintained.
We subscribe to the UK Chemical Industries' Association's Responsible
Care® scheme which obliges us to consider the overall impact
of our working practices and products and how they can be improved.
Adherence to the scheme helps the business to meet the requirements
of our environmental management system and discharge its duties
under PPC Regulations.
Increasingly, we will need to assess more critically any new process
to ensure that our business remains efficient, sustainable, and
profitable. Reviewing those processes, assessing their impacts,
internally and externally, and, where possible, eliminating or reducing
those impacts should accomplish this.
Please click here to view our Environmental
Policy
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