Binh Son company receives quality assurance system 2017 certificate
The Binh Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR), which runs the Dung Quat oil refinery, has received the certifications of top 10 Quality Assurance System 2017 and the Quality Brands Outstanding 2017.
QuangNgai(VNA) – The Binh Son Refinery and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR),whichruns the Dung Quat oil refinery, has received the certifications of top 10 QualityAssurance System 2017 and the Quality Brands Outstanding 2017.
The certificates were awardedby the InterConformity Assessment and Certification and the Asia-PacificQuality Network (APQN), which are announced by the Global Trade Alliance(Global GTA) annually.
Earlier, the VietnamEnterprise Institute coordinated with the Global GTA, the InterConformity andthe International Accreditation Forum, rated the BSR as the Golden QualityProvider 2017.
After seven years ofoperation, the BSR has produced and sold 47 million tonnes of products, meetingabout 40 percent of domestic petroleum demand.
Its revenue hit 36billion USD with profit reaching over 13 trillion VND at the end of the firstquarter of this year. It contributed more than 7 billion USD to the Statebudget, more than two times higher than the investment ofthe Dung Quat oil refinery.-VNA
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Workers at Dung Quat oil refinery (Photo: VNA) 
