QUALITY AND FOOD SAFETY POLICY

Our factory is certified by the ISO 9001 quality standard.

In the development of its mission and vision, COVERPAN, S.L. establish an important orientation of its strategy, to share with all the interest groups of the Organization, its main guidelines:

  • To ensure customer satisfaction by continuously meeting their needs and expectations.
  • To provide safe products in accordance with the applicable quality and food safety specifications.
  • To strive for continuous improvement of its Quality Management System.

In this sense, COVERPAN, S.L. defines and applies the Quality and Food Safety Policy, based on the following commitments:

  • Transforming Quality and Food Safety into key elements of the organisation’s culture.
  • Ensure strict compliance with legal requirements and other requirements to which the company subscribes in terms of quality and food safety.
  • Provide customers with products and services, promote quality, innovation and differentiation.
  • Maintain and develop relationships of commitment and trust with suppliers.
  • Adopt the best available practices and technologies.
  • Make rational use of resources (raw materials and materials, fuel, energy, water) and ensure their adequate disposal.
  • Promote teamwork environment, supported by its high professionalism, spirit of innovation and commitment to provide customers with high quality services and products.
  • Provide adequate training to employees, so that they develop skills and capabilities to effectively and responsibly carry out their activities and good manufacturing and hygienic practices.
  • Encourage awareness of new practices, as well as the improvement of the cost-effectiveness of products and production processes.
  • Promote continuous improvement of the effectiveness of the Food Safety and Quality Management System.
  • Ensure the fundamental principles of this policy are communicated to all employees and made available, when necessary, to all stakeholders (customers, suppliers, civil servants, society in general), promoting adequate internal and external communication with the agents of the food chain.

In order to achieve the commitments established in COVERPAN, S.L., objectives and goals are established annually.

The Management of COVERPAN, S.L., as well as all its employees, clearly identify with the commitments established in this policy and are committed to act with focus in the achievement of this policy.

COVERPAN S.L. was founded in 1993 as a pioneering company in the use of sustainable raw materials for the production of its flexible packaging.

The demand for environmentally friendly packaging is growing and represents a great environmental challenge. For this reason, COVERPAN S.L. is prepared to face the new challenges of the Europe 2030 framework, promoting the development of new biodegradable and compostable solutions made from natural resources and reinventing our products in order to be at the forefront and offer the latest innovations in sustainable packaging. PackInGreen® is Coverpan’s commitment to sustainability. We offer you a complete range of products manufactured with BIOBASED, BIODEGRADABLE AND COMPOSTABLE raw materials.

– BIOBASED: Our packaging is made from raw materials that come from biomass or vegetable sources and are therefore renewable.
– BIODEGRADABLE: Packaging that decomposes in the environment but does not reintegrate back into the ecosystem. This is the name given to a material that micro-fragments as a result of the natural action of micro-organisms such as moulds or bacteria.
– COMPOSTABLE: In addition to being bio-based and biodegradable, our packaging is made from compostable raw materials that generate compost or natural fertiliser by decomposition when exposed to certain conditions of humidity and temperature.
And it guarantees that it complies with Good Housekeeping Practices and, therefore, takes the following measures to align itself with their guidelines:

  • Minimisation of drinking water consumption through reasonable use in its facilities and training of plant and office staff.
  • Reuse, reduction and/or recycling of plant and office waste.
  • Regulation of the ambient temperature in the facilities to optimise energy consumption.
  • Energy efficiency.
  • Avoid discharge of polluting products into the public sewage system.
  • Avoid discharge of polluting products into the ground.
  • Avoids noise pollution.
  • Avoid atmospheric pollution (e.g., working vehicles’ ITV in order).
  • They carry out training courses related to the Environment or Good Environmental Practices.

COVERPAN, S.L. complies with the PEFC and FSC standards, promoting good practices in the forest and ensuring that forest products are produced respecting the highest environmental, social and ethical standards and therefore explicitly declares that it has read and understood the ‘Policy for the Association of Organisations with the FSC. This policy outlines FSC’s position with regard to impermissible activities by organisations and individuals that are already or would like to be associated with FSC, as well as the mechanism for disassociation.

a) Illegal harvesting or trade of forest products;
b) Violation of customary or human rights in forestry or the forest products sector;
c) Violation of workers’ rights Violation of workers’ rights and the principles defined in the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights;
d) Destruction of high conservation values HCVs in forests or areas of High Conservation Value;
e) Conversion of natural forest cover;
f) Use of genetically modified organisms in silvicultural operations for purposes other than research; g) Use of genetically modified organisms in forestry operations for purposes other than research.

COVERPAN, S.L. as a member of the FSC community complies in turn with the FSC Core Labour Requirements.

  • Does not use child labour.
  • Eliminates all forms of forced and compulsory labour.
  • Ensures that there is no discrimination in employment and occupation.
  • Respects freedom of association and the effective right to collective bargaining.

The Management of COVERPAN, S.L., as well as all its employees, clearly identify with the commitments set out in this policy and are committed to act with a focus on achieving it.

The Management of COVERPAN, S.L.

Seville, 17 October 2023

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