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Recognition for responsible business in the chemical industry

29-09-2008  

Unipetrol RPA, Paramo, and Česká rafinérská can continue to use the Responsible Care logo in the years to come.

Prague, 29 September 2008 – Unipetrol RPA, Paramo, and Česká rafinérská can continue to use the Responsible Care logo in the years to come. Representatives of these companies, Radomír Věk, head of the Chemopetrol production unit, Jindřich Bartoníček, Paramo Chief Production Officer, and Ivan Souček, Česká rafinérská Chief Executive Officer, accepted the certificate of the right to use the logo at the Evening with Czech Chemistry gala held on 25 September 2008.

Svaz chemického průmyslu ČR [Association of the Chemical Industry of the Czech Republic] (SCHP ČR) grants awards for responsible care to chemical companies. This year Paramo also received a special award, The SCHP ČR Sustainable Development Award, given for its adherence to the principles of sustainable development as defined at the Rio de Janeiro UN Summit. The award has been granted since 2006 and Paramo is only the fifth company that has received it.

SCHP ČR has awarded the certificate of the right to use the Responsible Care logo for the 13th time already this year. Unipetrol RPA has, as a successor to Chemopetrol, which received this certificate in 1996, received it for the sixth time this year.

Paramo has been entitled to use the Responsible Care logo since 1998; this year’s certificate is already the fifth for it. For Česká rafinérská it is its fourth award, and it has been entitled to use the logo since 1999. Unipetrol a.s., the parent company, received the certificate last year and with effect until 2011. 
  
This year SCHP ČR has awarded 22 certificates of the right to use the Responsible Care logo. In addition to Paramo, also Hexion Specialty Chemicals has received the SCHP ČR Sustainable Development Award.  Mr Miroslav Krejčí, former director of production unit Chemopetrol and member of Board of Directors of Unipetrol a.s., long-term SCHP ČR President, has received a special award in the form of a letter of thanks for his lifelong work and contribution to the implementation of the chemical industry’s global initiative in the areas of health and safety, and the environment.


UNIPETROL, a.s. is a group of companies operating in the petrochemical industry in the Czech Republic. In 2005 UNIPETROL became part of the PKN ORLEN Group, the largest downstream oil company in Central Europe. UNIPETROL primarily focuses on crude oil processing, fuels distribution and petrochemical production. In all these areas UNIPETROL group is one of leading players in both the Czech and Central European markets. The UNIPETROL group employs approximately 4,500 people.

Contact: 
Blanka Růžičková 
Spokesperson 
UNIPETROL, a.s.

Telephone: +420 225 001 407, +420 731 881 111 
E-mail: blanka.ruzickova@unipetrol.cz​

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