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Assessments support development of responsibility work

Algol Chemicals has been conducting customer satisfaction surveys for a long time in order to clarify how we can respond even better to customer expectations regarding responsibility.

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Product safety and supply chain traceability increasingly important to customers

According to Algol Chemicals' stakeholder survey product safety and supply chain traceability, among others, have become increasingly important to customers.

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Algol Chemicals begins representing The Compound Company

Algol Chemicals has begun representing The Compound Company from the Netherlands, which manufactures and supplies e.g. additives that are used in the production of plastic compounds and plastic recycling.

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Algol Chemicals nominated as DSM Supplier of the year

Algol Chemicals has been awarded DSM Supplier of the Year 2019. It is the second time during their partnership with DSM, last time being in the year 2013.

Algol Chemicals have taken steps to obtain the required information from our suppliers, and have already generated the first UFI codes for its own products.

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Unique Formula Identifier (UFI) to package labels

A hot topic in the chemicals industry right now is the new UFI (Unique Formula Identifier). The new annex requires that the unique formula identifier (UFI) must be available for all relevant products.

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Overall equipment availability at HKScan logistics centre rises nearly to 100 %

The logistics centre of Finnish food company HKScan in Vantaa sends out thousands of pallets of foodstuffs to different locations in Finland every single day. Algol Technics has served as HKScan’s maintenance partner since the early days of the logistics centre back in 2008. Algol employees are responsible for the reliability of equipment 24 hours a day,

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Improved quality and cost savings through new process at hot-dip galvanising plant in Finland

An innovative flux iron removal device was installed at Teknotyö Kuumasinkitys Oy in Järvenpää, Finland, on April. Algol Chemicals helped to improve the whole process.

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Work performed by robots is always of uniform quality

Automation improves the quality of manufacturing significantly, as a robot always does the same quality of work. Machines are also more accurate than the human eye. Should any deviation occur, it can be easily detected, as a machine will always make the same mistake consistently in the same place.

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Algol Chemicals helps develop Evonik’s digital distributor platform

The German specialty chemicals company is currently looking into building a new distributor portal and further improving the customer experience. Algol Chemicals is one of five distributors that has been given the opportunity to influence what the platform should contain.

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Algol Trehab is committed to ethical guidelines in the social and healthcare sector

As a member of Sailab – MedTech Finland ry, Algol Trehab is committed to organisation’s code of conduct in the social and healthcare sector. The guiding principles of the code of conduct are trust, independence, transparency, moderation and documentation.

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Overhead conveyor eliminates production bottleneck

The overhead conveyor system delivered by Algol Technics helped eliminate a major production bottleneck. A new forklift model to production provided a suitable opportunity for modernising the production line at the same time.

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Outsourcing service and maintenance operations generates savings

In-house service and maintenance departments require expertise above all else. When building service and maintenance operations, companies must consider whether they are able to provide expertise in all the necessary aspects of service and maintenance.

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