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SMC resumes production after periodic maintenance

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SALALAH, MAY 15 -


Salalah Methanol Company announced the successful completion of its second periodic maintenance and resumption of production operations last week. The maintenance lasted for 35 days.


This was the company’s second maintenance closure after April 2014. Adopting the best factory practices, the plant maintenance is done to restore and renovate the machines in order to enhance the production capacity of the plant, and upgrade the specifications of the design of processing equipment and operating mechanisms by examining the standards and the overall quality of the operation of the facility.


The current maintenance is crucial for the company as the methanol production processes would also be linked to the ammonia plant.


The maintenance process, according to SMC officials, is in the interest of the company to raise the efficiency of the plant and health and safety standards of the employees working in the company.


“Equally important for us is environment for which we are extra cautious. Salalah Methanol plant has been designed for periodic maintenance every four years since its opening in 2010. The plant has set up the best HSE practices with 750,000 continuous working hours without accidents and waste of time.”


Awad bin Hassan al Shanfari, CEO of the Salalah Methanol, said the HSE achievement was among many other achievements made by the company during the year.


“The company is proud of the Omani workforce, which constitutes 65.9 per cent of the total workforce. The company is proud of the success of the company’s Omanisation strategy. It demonstrates the interest of the company since its inception in the Omani cadres.” He said.


The company, according to him, keeps on investing on skill development and training of the Omani workforce so they could take the top leadership positions in the company and be partners in progress of the society and economy.


The CEO put stress on the company’s achievement of more than 6 million work hours in the field of HSE, without the occurrence of time-wasting accidents. “This reflects the importance and role of HSE in the company.”


He touched upon the SMC’s role in social responsibility, which is one of the major policy pillars of sustainable development of the company.


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