View Hoboken (Belgium) plant after the facelift (early 2009).
Umicore obtains an integrated certification for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
The Integrated Management System of Umicore Precious Metals Refining (website) in
On Thursday December 7th Hugo Morel, Executive Vice President of Umicore Precious Metals Services received one integrated official certificate for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
Daniël Frickel (left) hands over the new certificate to Hugo Morel (right)
Daniël Frickel, Service Delivery Manager LRQA Belgium, personally handed over the certificate to and the management team members concerned. Daniël Frickel: “I congratulate all staff members of Umicore Precious Metals Refining with this achievement. It is not easy to obtain certification for one of the three norms separately. It is beyond any doubt much more difficult to obtain all three of them as a result of one integrated audit! Umicore Precious Metals Refining in
In his reaction, Hugo Morel congratulated his staff as well: “This is an important recognition of Umicore’s managerial efforts in the field of quality, environment, health and safety. It proofs they are appropriate. It shows our customers, neighbours, government and last but not least our colleagues, what we consider our most important working areas. These are of course no stand alone areas. They are one and call for an integrated approach.”
(left to right: René Merny, Jan Kegels, Daniël Frickel, Hugo Morel, Remy Reul, Francis Vanbellen and Emmy De Graef)
Were also present at the extradition:
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Francis Vanbellen (Plant Manager and Total Quality Coordinator) and Remy Reul, Quality Manager for the ISO 9001:2000, who coordinated the audit
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Jan Kegels (Head of Department Environmental Affairs) for the ISO 14001:2004
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René Merny (Manager Safety Departement) and Emmy De Graef (Occupational Physician) for the OHSAS 18001:1999
According to the terms of the certificate, the integrated management system of Umicore Precious Metals Refining Hoboken is applicable to:
“Processing of complex precious metals bearing materials to recycle, recover and refine the precious, special and base metals, development of new processes, contracting of raw materials, safeguarding materials from fraud or theft, sales of end-products, and worldwide transportation.”
The new certificate will be valid for three years and will expire on
Umicore Precious Metals Refining Profile
Umicore Precious Metals Refining operates as one of the world's largest precious metals recycling facility.
This business unit of Umicore offers eco-efficient recycling and refining services for precious metal bearing materials such as by-products from other non-ferrous industries (e.g. drosses, mattes, speiss, anode slimes), consumer and industrial recyclable products (e.g. electronic scrap, spent auto catalysts, spent industrial catalysts, sweeps & bullions).
We recover and sell precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium), special metals (indium, selenium, tellurium), secondary metals (antimony, tin, bismuth, arsenic) and base metals (lead, copper, nickel).
We put them back in the cycle for a better life.
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