Haycarb Activated Carbon Products Awarded Three Food Certifications - GMP, HACCP and ISO 22000:2005 from SGS
Haycarb PLC proudly announces that our carbons have now been accredited with three major food certifications in the world. Our valued customers requiring activated carbon for their medical, pharmaceutical as well as food and beverage applications can now purchase Haycarb food grade activated carbon to be used in their products with following certifications:
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) Certification: Accredited by SGS- Sri Lanka
- HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) codex Aliment Arius Certification: Accredited by SGS- Sri Lanka
- ISO 22000:2005 Standard for Food Safety Management: Accredited by SGS-Switzerland as a Food Grade Carbon under Food Additives Category.
GMP certification is awarded to our Medicine and Pharmaceutical range of carbons manufactured as Food Grade activated carbon.
Our carbons with RMP code manufactured especially for Food and Beverage related applications are certified under HACCP and ISO22000 under Food Additive category.
The qualified food safety team of Haycarb PLC has been working rigorously dedicated to establishing production and quality management procedures and protocols internally to implement Food Management production standards. Ensuring product hygiene, eliminating contamination risks, maintaining product quality, improving work environment and the training of employees has been conducted under the direction and facilitation of Mr. Rajitha Kariyawasan, Managing Director of Haycarb PLC.
The awarding ceremony of above certifications was held at the head office of Haycarb PLC at 400, Deans Road Colombo -10, Sri Lanka on 26th March 2018.
Mr. Chamika Wimalasiri- Business Manager, Certification & Business Enhancement at SGS- Sri Lanka awarded the certificated to Mr. M S P Udaya Kumara, Director-Technical and R&D, Mr. Brahman Balaratnarajah, Director - Manufacturing & Engineering and Mr. Ali Asgar Munaver – Director -Business Development respectively.
Haycarb PLC is committed to ensuring the consistent product quality to meet the new accredited standards with the use of advanced manufacturing technology, specialized manufacturing processes and hygienic conditions of food grade carbon as food additives.
Certifications
Mr. Chamika Wimalasiri of SGS presenting Mr. Udaya Kumara, Director R&D - Haycarb PLC the ISO 22000 certification
Mr. Chamika Wimalasiri of SGS presenting Mr. Bremen Balaratnarajah, Director Engineering- Haycarb PLC the HCPP certification
Mr. Chamika Wimalasiri, of SGS presenting Mr. Ali Munaver, Director Business Development – Haycarb PLC, the GMP certification
Haycarb Food Safety Team with the SGS official at the award ceremony
Haycarb at Aquatech China 2018
Meet us at Aquatech China to discuss your activated carbon requirement for water treatment!
Our representatives met with many of our valued customers from China as well as all over the globe at Aquatech China 2008. Many customers stopped by to discuss their various needs in activated carbon relating to water treatments in applications such as Block Filters, Monochloramaine Removal, Industrial Water Treatment, Municipal Water Treatment as well as Drinking Water Treatment.
Eurocarb at FILTECH 2018
Haycarb PLC's European subsidiary Eurocarb participated at the FILTECH 2018 held during March 15-18 this year. Our representatives met with a large number of interested parties, especially from the European region to discuss their activated carbon requirements for filteration.
Eurocarb Team would like to thank the customers and visitors who stopped by:
"Once again this year Filtech has been a big success for Eurocarb, the European subsidiary of Haycarb plc. It is a great opportunity to meet with our customers and people from different companies all around the globe. Many thanks for all that came to visit our brand new stand!
We hope to see you all soon.
The Eurocarb Team."
FILTECH is the largest filteration event held world-wide.
Haycarb PLC takes Gold Award in CSR at JASTECA Awards 2017 for “Puritas Sath Diyawara”
The Hayleys Group continued to set new benchmarks in corporate social responsibility as its purification sector, Haycarb PLC won two awards at the recently concluded Japan Sri Lanka Technical and Cultural Association (JASTECA) Awards 2017.
Drawing participation from some of Sri Lanka’s leading corporates, Haycarb PLC emerged as one of the nation’s true leaders in sustainability, winning the coveted Ian Dias Abeysinghe Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Gold Award in recognition of the lifesaving initiatives to provide clean drinking water to rural communities across the country for the flagship initiative ’ “Puritas Sath Diyawara”.
Additionally, Puritas Sath Diyawara also won the Special Award under the CSR category, securing further recognition for its groundbreaking initiative.
“Our team at Haycarb PLC is deeply honored by the invaluable recognition expressed for Puritas Sath Diyawara project at the recent JASTECA Awards 2017. We feel a deep sense of accomplishment at the life-saving support that this initiative has extended to water-stressed rural communities situated in Sri Lanka’s dry zone.
“Moving forward, we remain firmly committed to the continued expansion of Puritas Sath Diyawara with the support of key sectors of the Hayleys Group in order to provide safe, clean, drinking water to the communities that need it most, complemented with further opportunities for enhancing income generation and education as our flagship CSR initiative,” Hayleys PLC Chairman and Chief Executive, Mohan Pandithage stated.
Launched in 2014 with the construction of its first Reverse Osmosis plant, Puritas Sath Diyawara has grown from strength to strength now covering 19 villages hit hardest by the epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu) in Northern and North Central Provinces.
With its most recent Reverse Osmosis plant, Puritas Sath Diyawara now provides 160,000 litres of clean drinking water to over 33,000 men, women and children.
“A key reason for the initiation of Puritas Sath Diyawara was as a response to the ravaging impact that CKDu was having on Sri Lanka’s rural communities with the patronage of key business sectors of the Hayleys Group. This has been ably coordinated and executed by our fully owned environmental engineering arm, Puritas (Pvt) Ltd. While there has been significant research into this subject, it is still unclear what causes CKDu, and the only known pragmatic preventative measure is to ensure access to clean drinking water.
“While Puritas Sath Diyawara has expanded with great success from this initial stage, we remain deeply committed to assisting these communities that often times are directly responsible for feeding our nation,” Managing Director of Haycarb Group, Rajitha Kariyawasan said.
Together with its vital water filtration facilities, the project also aims to support education among children in these communities, in addition to further initiatives aimed at Livelihood development.
Haycarb records turnover of USD 71.4 million and profit before tax of USD 3.7 million at Q3 2017/18
Haycarb PLC, the Sri Lankan multinational of Hayleys PLC reported revenue of USD 71.4 million and profit before tax of USD 3.7 million for 9 months ending 31 December 2017. The profit after tax stood at USD 3.1 million.
Haycarb PLC Managing Director Mr. Rajitha Kariyawasan said that the raw material shortages and resulting high prices continued to impact the bottom line adversely in Q3 of 2017/18. The deterioration of charcoal availability in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand driven by unfavourable weather conditions, resulted in significant increases of cost of manufacture in Sri Lanka and Thailand. On the other hand, even though the raw material availability continued to recover in Indonesia during the period under review, the price pressure did not ease due to the high level of demand attributable to shortages of charcoal in other locations. In this situation the company has made significant efforts to revise prices of activated carbon in consecutive occasions through discussions with its valued customers. However, the lagging effect and the inability to pass the full impact of the price increase has resulted in lower margins compared to last year.
Mr. Kariyawasan stated that in this challenging environment, noteworthy savings were generated through increased efficiencies and cost reductions obtained via manufacturing processes and supply chain through lean projects.
He further said, “The company’s initiatives to acquire new customer accounts and market segments backed by a robust product development platform have also shown positive results and added to the bottom line. Haycarb will continue to engage in its development initiatives to capture new markets, while using every effort to provide the best value proposition to its existing markets world-wide. Haycarb PLC made significant progress in its accreditations in quality by obtaining GMP, HACCP and ISO 22000 certifications from SGS that will enable the Group to position its high value added products in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical application segments.”
He also noted the positive contribution to the bottom line from the Environmental Engineering arm, Puritas (Pvt.) Ltd. in Q3 and commented that this business segment is expected to continue its growth momentum and make a significant impact to the bottom line in the last quarter.
We are also proud to state that Puritas Sathdiyawara, the key CSR initiative of the Hayleys/Haycarb Groups, that is instrumental in providing 160,000 litres of clean drinking water daily to 33,000 people in 19 villages in North Central and Nothern districts affected by the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) of Sri Lanka, was named world’s best environmental water project at Energy Globe World Awards 2017.
Commenting on the future prospects and growth of the Group, Mr. Kariyawasan said that the company remains positive to achieve medium to long term growth in the background of increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability worldwide through the execution of its strategic plan for growth and diversification.
Haycarb is the pioneer manufacturer of coconut shell activated carbon in any coconut producing country with manufacturing facilities in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia supported by marketing offices in the USA, UK and Australia. The company contributes net foreign exchange revenues with its value adding processes whilst remaining a leading and technologically superior manufacturer in its chosen segment.
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