Quality Management System

Meeting the quality and environmental, health and safety requirements of our customers, both locally and globally, is a critical activity for Ticona. We constantly pursue and update the management system certifications needed for this purpose – indeed our quality management system has been certified to ISO 9000 standards since the early 1990s.  In 2003, we built on this foundation by implementing the Global Ticona Integrated Management System (TIMS) for quality, environmental and risk management. To see Ticona’s global policies on quality and environmental health and safety, a description of the Global TIMS and a schematic diagram of Ticona’s business processes, please click on the left side on this page.

Important certifications include ISO 9001:2000, ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO 14001 and ISO/IEC 17025. Quality Management System Certifications under ISO 9001:2000 have now been achieved for all production sites and supporting remote locations of Ticona worldwide. The ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard combines the automotive regulations in Europe of VDA 6.1, EAQF and AVSQ with the requirements of QS-9000 in North America and supersedes all of these. Ticona Europe and Ticona Americas received the certification for ISO/TS 16949:2002 in 2003.

All Ticona laboratories are included in these quality system registrations. Additionally a number of appropriate Ticona laboratories are accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025 and meet general requirements for testing and calibration laboratories.

Ticona facilities in the Americas and at Oberhausen, Germany achieved certification under ISO 14001, the Environmental Management System Standard, prior to the end of 2002. With the certification of Ticona Kelsterbach works in 2005 now all Ticona production sites globally are registered to ISO 14001.

Presented on this website are PDF files of the current certificates of registration showing the details of facilities and product lines covered by all of the standard registrations.