Production > Quality Control
The quality of our products is the key to our success. We firmly uphold the principles that priority should be given to quality and our customers, and will strive to supply safe, reliable and quality products to our customers. We have obtained the accreditation of ISO 9001:2000 which is valid for the period from April 2007 to April 2010. We have applied the principles of ISO 9001:2000 throughout our quality control system.
We have internal quality management guidelines which are used by us in terms of quality management, quality planning, quality control and quality enhancement. We compile and update the same in strict compliance with the standards as set out in ¡§GB/T19001- 2000 idt ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Management System Requirements¡¨. We will also continue to improve and enhance the same by taking into account the actual situation.
We have a quality assurance team to monitor our daily operation and the quality standard of our raw materials, semi-products and products. Observation and testings are carried out at various stages of production process.
Our quality control team consists of more than 100 staff who are responsible for implementing quality control by inspecting the quality and origin of the raw materials, observing and checking our production process, testing on finished goods and monitoring our customer support services. Almost all our quality control staff possess secondary school or above education level in China, some of the quality control staff has relevant experience in the Group's industry or similar role in other enterprises. A majority of the senior management of our quality control team has over five year's working experience in the quality control field and four of them possess engineer qualifications. Our quality control staff, from time to time, attend training courses of ISO standards organised by China Certification Center for Quality Mark for internal auditors on quality management system and environmental management system. Every attendee is usually required to attend a test after training. We have also conducted internal training to new employees of the quality control team and training comprising battery testing techniques and chemical ability testing techniques.
We impose strict control over the quality of the electrode plates purchased from our suppliers. We also provided know-how and specifications relating to the production of electrode plates on a confidential basis. In order to ensure the quality of electrode plates, we required our suppliers of electrode plates to source their raw materials from designated source. We also conducted internal quality check on the electrode plates produced by such suppliers. If the quality, weight or performance of the electrode plates fall below our prescribed standard, we shall request the relevant suppliers to arrange for replacement of any sub-standard electrode plates or terminate the supply from them.
We have five quality assurance team members stationed at the production sites of our five suppliers of electrode plates in order to ensure that all raw materials used by them are purchased from our designated sources and that their production processes are consistent with our standard.