Celebrating World Quality Day last week (November 9th 2017), leading petrochemical company Borouge has pledged to put quality first.

Borouge Quality Day
The organisation has underlined its commitment to cultivating a quality mind-set and practices across the organisation and highlighting its quality initiatives and programmes that contribute to ensuring business development and success.
Held simultaneously at its headquarters in Sheikh Khalifa Energy Complex in Abu Dhabi and at its offices in Singapore, Borouge’s celebration aimed to provide a platform to employees and to quality professionals across ADNOC Group to share knowledge and best practices in Quality Management.
"Marking the World Quality Day provides an opportunity to Borouge to demonstrate its continuous commitment to Quality supporting the building of successful businesses to achieve the maximum benefits for all our stakeholders," said Abdulrahman Al Ateek, Vice-President Quality Management, Borouge. "Through continuous improvement and setting challenging goals we enhance the performance, efficiency and profitability of our operations as well as the development of our human capital.
"Customers’ satisfaction is achieved through providing highest quality products and services, maintaining comprehensive quality management systems, embedding corporate business requirements, striving for perfection and enhancing profitability throughout the value chain."
Borouge’s Quality Framework is a platform that Borouge created to support the enhancement of quality in production and business improvement. It’s built on a balance between continuous improvement and need of standardisation through focusing on the organisation’s people, processes and systems.
Borouge’s dedication to and focus on the areas of continuous improvement and excellence was rewarded in 2016 when Borouge won the highly acclaimed Gold category during the 15th cycle of the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (SKEA) ceremony. The award recognises Borouge's outstanding performance and commitment to excellence throughout our operations.
Borouge’s celebration also hosted Ahmed Al Burkani, Director of Corporate Development at the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, who talked about quality mind-set and Total Quality Management and their role in giving better results in big data management, creating innovative culture and giving a better look on future.
Al Burkani’s presentation was followed by a panel discussion attended by Naser Al Omaira, Vice President Plant Availability in Borouge; Amal Salem Saif Al Yahmadi, Business Process Manager at ADNOC Gas Processing; Nancy Nouaimeh, AVP Quality, Safety & Performance Excellence at Abela & CO, in addition to Al Ateek.
The event concluded with an exhibition on quality that included workshops and presentations focusing on process improvement, demonstration of quality control, product quality innovation and quality management systems.