Tata Chemicals wins the World Class award from Asia Pacific Quality Organization
August 6, 2007

Tata Chemicals has won the World Class award from Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO), which recently announced the winners of the International Asia Pacific Quality Awards. The awards will be presented at the APQO / China Association of Quality Conference in Shanghai, China, between October 18-20.

"We are pleased to announce eight organisations from Asia and the Pacific Rim that are exemplary companies of world-class quality performance as evidenced by winning the International Asia Pacific Quality Award modeled after the US Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Awards," said Charles Aubrey, chairman of APQO and the International Asia Pacific Quality Award Executive Committee.

The following organisations won the World Class Award:

Large manufacturing:

• Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Shanghai, China
• PT Indo Liberty Textiles, Karawang, Indonesia
• Tata Chemicals, Fertilisers Business, India

This is the seventh year of the awards with participation from a record number of companies as well as countries.

About the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO)
The APQO was founded and organised by National Quality Organizations in Asian and Pacific Rim countries including the American Society for Quality and was incorporated in the Philippines in 1985. It is a non-profit organisation formed to be a primary mover of continuous improvement for goods and services and quality of life in the Asia Pacific Region. APQO has several hundred national quality organisations (core members), corporate members, and individual members.