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MAXAM updates its Corporate Quality Policy
2013.04.03
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In accordance with ISO 9001, and taking the Responsible Care Global Charter and the United Nations Global Compact voluntary agreements into account.
MAXAM has updated its quality corporate policy in order to adapt the company’s standards to the generalized internationalization and performance of the global markets. Its main objective is to employ transparency in order to meet the needs and demands of all stakeholders: investors, shareholders, lenders, customers, suppliers, insurance companies,...People are the key element in MAXAM’s new quality corporate. They are the ones that make quality management a reality via communication, participation and teamwork in, and throughout, all of the company’s levels and organizational units.
In the words of José Fernando Sánchez-Junco, MAXAM’s Chairman and CEO, “quality is not only a professional obligation, but a personal commitment of all of MAXAM’s employees. All of MAXAM’s companies are involved in the development, implementation and enforcement of the Corporate Policy Quality through the Quality Management System”.
Guiding references: ISO 9001, Responsible Care and the Global Compact
The guiding references for MAXAM’s corporate quality policy have been the ISO 9001 international standards, as well as the voluntary initiatives which MAXAM has pledged to follow: the Responsible Care Global Charter and the United Nations Global Compact.
Each center will also take into account the quality management norms that apply to the specific Business Unit to which it belongs.
A Quality Management System
Likewise, in order to guarantee the correct application of this policy, MAXAM has implanted a Quality Management System that involves process management, customer orientation, both internal and external, and continuous improvement. This system provides tools to measure the levels of quality via key performance indicators (KPIs) and the processing of claims and inaccuracies. Moreover, it includes an external and internal audit plan that ensures its efficacy.
ISO 9001 implantation
The assessment of the company’s compliance with the ISO 9001 requirements is accredited by the BSI, an external organization that periodically issues multisite certifications covering audited MAXAM’s workcenters, subsidiaries and companies, specifying the specific scope –both in terms of products and related services– of each case. Currently there are 70 certified workcenters and subsidiaries spread across five continents, and the goal is to complete the certification of the company’s subsidiaries’ most important centers –as a reflection of the effective implementation of the management system throughout the Company– by late 2014.
BSI Group
BSI is an independent and global company that helps businesses, governments and other organizations increase their benefits and access to the market, and highlights the reputations of the same with solutions based upon security regulations and services. From its origins as the first national certification organization, BSI group has over 100 years of experience, with 66.000 client organizations in 150 countries, which it assists from its 50 offices worldwide.
Further information:
Lucas Ferreira
MAXAM
Communications Director
91 722 01 00
lferreira@maxam.net
MAXAM – www.maxam.net
MAXAM is a service and industrial group that operates on a global scale by developing, manufacturing and commercializing civil explosives and initiation systems for mining, quarries and construction; cartridges, shotgun shells and smokeless powder for hunting and sports use; and products for the defense industry. Additionally, MAXAM is a supplier of key raw materials for nitro chemical activity, generated for the company’s own internal needs as well as for sales to third parties. Finally, as a result of its drive towards innovative, sustainable development, MAXAM offers its clients a wide variety of solutions in the fields of safety and environmental conservation.
Founded by Alfred Nobel in 1872, MAXAM celebrated its 140th birthday in 2012 with a yearly turnover of approximately one billion euros and a presence in all of the major mining areas of the world, with production sites in over 45 countries, an active market presence in more than 100 others, and over 6500 employees spread across five continents.
MAXAM offers a complete range of products and services to the companies and markets where it operates and integrates safe, superior quality and high tech products with the most complete technical advice, contributing in this manner to the continuous improvement of the services given to its clients. The company’s vast international presence, respect for the environment, groundbreaking research and considerable philanthropic efforts demonstrate MAXAM’s status as a leading, active and committed company, engaged with the progress and development of the society and the environment that surrounds it.
The MAXAM Foundation – www.maxam.net/en/foundation
The MAXAM Foundation is a non-profit organization that encompasses MAXAM sponsorship activities in the realm of culture, and within painting in particular. Moreover, the Foundation’s mission centers on the organization, preservation and dissemination of the historical heritage amassed by MAXAM since its founding in 1872 by Alfred Nobel. It also organizes activities for the promotion and achievement of objectives linked to civic, social, educational, scientific and technological research and development.
Its main areas of activity are:
- The organization, protection and conservation of the Company’s historical heritage.
- The management of the MAXAM Painting Collection, founded in 1899, which each year provides the image for the company’s famous Explosives Calendars.
- The House of the Explosive at Asturias’s Museum of Mining and Industry (www.mumi.es).
- The MAXAM Chair of Explosives Technology at the Higher Technical School of Mining Engineers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), through which the Foundation has established training agreements with universities around the world (Brazil, Bolivia, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Australia…), and through which engineering students can conclude their studies in Spain, and later begin their professional careers within some of MAXAM's ’international projects.
