The news of year 2007

The policy for the year 2007
Today, our company is certified under ISO 9001 version 2000, ISO 14001 version 2004 and FAMI QS (version 4). The requirements of these standards are applied across the whole of our activities of extraction of the raw materials, the processing and sales of china clay and calcined china clay.

In accordance with these standards, and with a view to continuous improvement, we are engaged to develop with a view to integrate our systems with the objective of becoming more efficient, always bearing in mind to better satisfy our customers and to constantly improve the environment and to increase our economic performance.

Our general objectives for the year 2007 are as follows:

• Develop a dialogue with our customers and suppliers
• Improve the knowledge of our products
• Develop our production resource for improved performance taking into account all resulting from all our activities, products and services
• Rely upon the competence of our personnel
• Respect and anticipate the legislation and the regulations in place applicable to our activities, products and services relative to environmental aspects, to the product quality and the security of property and people.
• Pursue our development of the integration of our systems for Quality,
• Environment and FAMI QS
• To respect the requirements of the animal industry through our HACCP system.

SOKA has a new store of 4500t capacity at the port of Le Légué in the Cesson basin.
This store is equipped with a fully automated loading facility capable of loading 250/300 tonnes per hour.
The new Cesson basin allows vessels up to 5000 tonnes to be loaded.

The new quarry situated opposite the existing quarry, across the road. The first tonnes will be excavated during the 4th quarter 2003. SOKA has obtained a mining authorisation for 20 years.