IMPACT Enterprise is the leading technology used by chemical companies in the US and Europe to do all of the following:
- Lower exposure to risks
- Reduce losses
- Improve quality
- Raise productivity
- Provide comprehensive QHSE analysis
Types of Chemical companies that use Syntex IMPACT Enterprise
Petrochemical
Petrochemicals are derived from oil and gas by various refining techniques.
Petrochemical companies supply the raw materials for all types of chemical
businesses.
- Pressure to deliver new, complex, innovative products
- Must work under an extreme level of regulation
- Work with volatile materials and end product
- Face constant risk to personnel and plant
- Today face additional security concerns
- Require highly educated, highly paid work force
- Must rely on contractors
- Require special equipment to manufacture, store and transport
- Face strong local oversight
- Face increasing public relations pressures
Specialty chemicals
Specialty chemicals industry is a $400 billion global industry that
focuses on the development of chemicals and materials from the perspective
of function and market value. Therefore, the emphasis is not on product
chemical structure, but on how the product can better serve end-user
markets.
- Pressure to deliver new, complex, innovative products
- Stretch capabilities to address cyclical end-user markets on time-to-market
- Must work under an extreme level of regulation
- Work with volatile materials and end product
- Face constant risk to personnel and plant
- Today face additional security concerns
- Control complex equipment and processes that create exposure to risk
for
- Employees
- Assets
- Environment
- Product
- Company Reputation
Pharmaceuticals
The pharmaceuticals industry consists of establishments that are primarily
involved in fabricating or processing medicinal chemicals and pharmaceutical
products. The industry also includes establishments that formulate pharmaceutical
products and are involved in grinding, grading, and milling of botanical
products.
- Extensive regulatory oversight by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other levels of regulation
- Effective patent protection is an essential component due to high cost and time for drug approval
- Competition for discovering new drugs and bringing them to market is extremely high
- Significant portion of sales is reinvested in R&D and discovery of new compounds
- Work with volatile materials and end product
- Today face additional security concerns
Ways that Chemical Companies use IMPACT Enterprise
Regulatory Compliance
IMPACT Enterprise helps Chemical companies in their compliance initiatives
and helps to facilitate inspections, audits, findings and analysis by
increasing awareness, improving responsiveness and measuring the effectiveness.
Operations Management Systems
IMPACT helps Chemical companies facilitate the management of system
elements, compliance, continuous improvement, communication, analysis
and reporting around a variety of management systems and excels in enabling
the execution of these programs. Some sample management systems include:
- Responsible Care®
- Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
Business Value for Chemical Companies
Measure, manage, and mitigate risk.
IMPACT Enterprise delivers capabilities for operations planning, incident, assessment, quality and environmental management, regulatory compliance assessment, and other risk management. Integrated communication and workflow processes non-intrusively engage leadership and workforce in reactive as well as proactive risk identification and execution of action items to help strengthen risk reduction systems. Chemical companies of any size can rapidly and affordably deploy a standardized set of business processes based on industry best practices.
As these processes propagate safer, more efficient practices throughout the enterprise, quality and productivity increase. These factors are generally where the highest profit margins are found.
Understand patterns of operations and performance.
IMPACT Exec Analytical & Reporting Tool provides sophisticated analysis, reporting and scenario development tools. These help chemical companies analyze past experience to more accurately predict future requirements or gaps within the performance management system. Gaps and requirements become clear – such as regulatory non-compliance or potential for loss. Your system then engages all employees in prioritization of remediation and execution of action items.
We Understand Local Regulations and Requirements
The growth in the Chemical Industry has been focused in the basic chemicals (petrochemicals) segment, which is concentrated along the Gulf Coast, where petroleum and natural gas feedstocks are readily available. The Gulf Coast area produces the majority the industry sector chemicals, with Texas and Louisiana producing about 70 percent of all primary petrochemicals.
Syntex is a Texas, Gulf Coast company and we have a long and successful working history with some of the biggest players in the industry (ExxonMobil, PPG Industries, Shell Oil, Atofina and Lyondell Chemical to name a few). Many of our customers have facilities located along the Gulf Coast area, but our experience with them and the Chemical Industry extends beyond local geographical boundaries to across worldwide markets and multiple business domains. We have an understanding of local and global industry regulations, business requirements and government expectations. We also know that environmental and other regulatory compliance is a basic tenet of your business responsibilities. In fact, it is integral to your business planning and operating practices — striving to continuously improve QHSE performance is a primary goal.
Summary
For Chemical companies, the risk could hardly be higher: Toxic and volatile substances, complex machinery and processes, product quality issues, critical transportation issues, security concerns and of course, the human element.
Today, Chemical companies must also conduct and manage daily operations across far-flung enterprises. They must deal with globalization, regulatory compliance, heightened environmental pressures, mergers and acquisitions, and ever-changing business and market conditions. All of this combines to make operational risk management increasingly difficult.
These are precisely the reasons why Chemical companies around the world that are among the most dedicated to reducing risk and improving safety have chosen to deploy the IMPACT Enterprise® solution for enterprise risk management.
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