President’s Foreword

Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery President

Throughout 2019, GPIC has also invested extensively into building the capabilities of the Kingdom’s future generations through its various educational programmes and partnerships. Our employees have remained fully engaged in developing, sharing knowledge and sponsoring key initiatives to support and build our great country.

We have been through many developments during 2019, in sometimes less than favourable circumstances and the year was quite a year for all of us at GPIC. We continue the uncertainty, complexity and volatility of our industry around the globe and we have faced many challenges given the extremely difficult market conditions and economic volatility underpinning our markets. However, our resilience to overcome these challenges is, as always, down to our incredible GPIC team. The ideas, the skills and the dedication of our workforce, continues to make GPIC a pioneer in best practice and sustainability – and has done so for the past 40 years.

Notwithstanding this, we have also accomplished a huge amount. Safety is always our number one priority and of paramount importance to us, and this year we have had no LTA for either our employees or contractors, which adds up to 32 million man hours without LTA. Some of the many highlights of this year have been the awards and recognition we have received. We are immensely proud to receive awards, such as; the UK’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) International Safety and Chemical Sector Award and the Arabian CSR Award. The Dubai Chamber also awarded GPIC a CSR Label, and I was extremely honoured to receive the International Diploma from the British National Council for Occupation Health and Safety Examinations (NEBOSH) and received Special Recognition for 10 Years of GPCA Responsible Care. GPIC was also awarded the Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum Business Aware Certificates and the Industry Stewardship Champion Award from IFA. We also received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award in the Arab States from the Regional Social Responsibility Network, the RoSPA HSE Award, Procurement Risk Management Award and Maintenance Excellence Certificate.

GPIC continued to maintain its strong investment in people development throughout 2019, structuring effective training sessions and courses to build the capability of the company’s future leaders.

Throughout 2019, GPIC also invested extensively into building the capabilities of the Kingdom’s future generations through its various educational programmes and partnerships. The company has also continued to pass on its knowledge and expertise across the industry and across the region, in sustaining the environment and ensuring the adoption of sustainable technologies and processes.

At the community level, everyone at GPIC recognises the importance of a sustainable and effective Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. Our employees have remained fully engaged in developing, sharing knowledge and sponsoring key initiatives to support and build our great country. We ultimately know and believe that, through CSR leadership, innovation, partnerships and accelerating youth empowerment we can guarantee a more prosperous and sustainable future for societies and our planet.

We ask Almighty God to enable us to continue succeeding as an organisation and as a country and, we thank our Kingdom’s wise leadership, which has enabled us to achieve all of our tremendous success.

Dr. Abdulrahman Jawahery President

THROUGHOUT 2019, OUR ENTIRE BUSINESS HAS CONTINUED TO IMPLEMENT AND SEEK OUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN OPERATING COSTS, ENHANCING SAFETY AND, OPERATING OUR PLANTS WITH THE UTMOST EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN PRODUCTION AND QUALITY OF PRODUCT.

DR. ABDULRAHMAN JAWAHERY - GPIC PRESIDENT