OREANDA-NEWS. August 23, 2007. Khartsyzsk Tube Works has begun preparation of the Quality Management System of the mill to certification according to the new standards of OJSC "Gazprom" series 9001. Certification will enable KhTW to acquire the status of an approved supplier of "Gazprom" which fact will provide it with the opportunity to take part in biddings for LDP supplies. Earlier the company made deliveries on the basis of previous "Gazprom" standards which were changed last year.

"Petrosert" association, the consultant chosen on the project, is one of the leading Russian companies in the sphere of providing services in quality management system implementation. Specialists of the association have already set to work at the enterprise. The specialists of "Petrosert", in particular, conducted a diagnostic audit of the Quality Management System of KhTW and a two-day seminar. More that 30 specialists of the Works were trained the requirements of the standard STO OJSC "Gazprom" 9001. Upon completion of the seminar all the participants passed testing. As the result of successful passing of the course of training on the standards STO OJSC "Gazprom" they were awarded certificates.

The Director General of KhTW, Andrey Shyshatskyy, has commented: "KhTW is preparing to certification of its products actively in order to take part in tube supply biddings for major projects scheduled in nearest future. Summer months were very dynamic regarding conducted audits. In the beginning of July we conducted a scheduled annual internal audit of the Quality Management System and designed measures for its improvement. We passed both the audit of the division of certification in Ukrainian system "Ukrsepro" and the audit of Russian autonomous non-profit organization "National Institute of Standardization, Expertise and Certification of Transport "Transsert". In the end of July we invited specialists of "Petrosert". Up-to-date, certified quality management system is a key factor in consumer loyalty that convinces them of reliability of our products".