BWI: Max Speciality Films Bags Energy Conversation and Quality Awards

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Source: Max Speciality Films
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 02:15 PM IST (08:45 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Environment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Energy companies, Media & entertainment; Technology
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Max Speciality Films Bags Energy Conversation and Quality Awards
Wins the National Energy Conservation Award, also Wins the Coveted International Quality Crown Award (IQC) in the Gold category, conferred by Business Initiative Directions (B.I.D.), UK

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Tuesday, December 15, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Max Speciality Films (MSF), an SBU of Max India, was conferred with the prestigious 'Certificate of Merit' in the Food Processing Sector for the National Energy Conservations Awards-2009, held last evening by Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power.

The award recognizes MSF's significant environment & energy conservation initiatives at its state-of-the-art plant in Rail Majra, Nawanshahr, Punjab. MSF successfully managed 8% savings through reductions in power and fuel consumption in FY09 by specific initiatives and projects.

MSF also recently won the 'International Quality Crown Award' Gold Category from Business Initiative Directions (B.I.D.), UK, one of the first four worldwide organizations which implement Quality Culture in top local, national, continental or global companies. The award had an arena of companies from 173 nations across the world competing.

The Crown demonstrates MSF's excellence in areas such as Leadership and Business Management; Quality and Excellence; Technology, Innovation & Expansion. Some of the previous Indian winners of the Crown include Tata Elexsi, Reliance Energy Limited, Indian Oil (Mauritius) Ltd and VSNL

About National Energy Conservation Awards

National Energy Conservation Awards, constituted for the first time on December 14th, 1991 by Ministry of Power recognizes outstanding leaders in the various industries who have made serious and systematic attempts for efficient utilization and conservation of energy.

The 2009 award was presented by Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon'ble Union Minister of Power, Government of India at the National Energy Conservation Day Award Function organized at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

It had nominations spanning across a wide range of industrial units including Aluminium, automobile, cement, ceramics, chemicals, chlor-alkali, consumer goods, drugs & pharmaceuticals, dairy, edible oil/vanaspati, fertilizers, forging, food processing, foundries, glass, integrated steel, jute, mini steel, mining, paints & allied product industry, paper & pulp, petrochemicals industries, paper and pulp etc.

The award committee consisted of members drawn from the Ministry of Power, Central Electricity Authority, National Productivity Council, Confederation of Indian Industry, Ministry of Railways and from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. The committee critically evaluates the nominations on various parameters recorded in terms of conservation of energy.

About Business Initiative Directions (B. I. D.)

Business Initiative Directions (B.I.D.) is the creator of the first edition of the QC100 TQM. Mr. Jose E. Prieto, the present CEO and President of the QC founded the publishing group JBAN in 1973. Since 1986, various international partners joined the group. The primary activity of the group is oriented towards sharing quality culture in leading companies worldwide.

The founders' team, formed by engineers, physicists, mathematicians, economists, sociologists and journalists, continues contributing ideas and improvements to the QC100 and giving opportunities for all those companies investing in Quality processes.

B.I.D. is currently the most important private organization in the world presenting a quality award on the basis of principles as solid as those of the Deming in Japan (only for Japanese companies), the Baldrige in the U.S. (only for U.S. companies), or the EFQM in Europe (only for European companies).

About Max Speciality Films

Max Speciality Products (MSP) is Max India's fully owned business unit, specialising in the manufacture of a wide range of Barrier and Packaging films for high end applications. The BOPP division of MSF has an installed capacity of 29,000 tons per annum. MSF's leather finishing foil business division manufactures a range of leather finishing and laminating foils. These films are used by the top brands in India and abroad.

MSF has its manufacturing facility at Bhai Mohan Singh Nagar, near Chandigarh. MSF has a working environment that reflects global best practices in safety and eco-friendliness. The facility has the following certifications: ISO 9001: 2000 (for Quality Management Systems); ISO 14001: 2004 (for Environmental Safety Systems); OHSAS 18001: 1999 (for Safety Management Systems).


CONTACT DETAILS
Nitin Thakur, Max Speciality Films, +91 9873347428, nthakur@maxindia.com
Soham Majumdar, Max Speciality Films, +91 9911907008, smajumdar@maxindia.com

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CONSUMER, ENVIRONMENT, MARKETING, BUSINESS SERVICES, ENERGY, MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY

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