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Quality Policy

A 99.99 fine gold bar in the hands of a Kazakhmys Corporation employee

The Quality Management Directorate of Kazakhmys Corporation LLP (hereinafter — the QMD) ensures the operation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the quality management system (hereinafter — the QMS) in accordance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2015, within the scope of its functional activities as defined by the Regulations on the QMD.

The scope of the QMD's QMS is aimed at providing complex quality control system for raw materials and it's processed products of mining and metallurgical production, technological processes using measuring instruments that meet the requirements of metrological parameters.

This Quality Policy (hereinafter — the Policy) supports the strategic direction of the development of Kazakhmys Corporation LLP, is appropriate to the purpose and context of the QMD, and provides a framework for setting quality objectives.

Core principles

  • Customer focus: ensuring the reliability, objectivity, and timeliness of the results of control, measurement, and accounting for all interested parties.
  • Process approach: managing interrelated processes as a single system.
  • Improvement: continual improvement of the QMS and of all areas of the QMD's activities.
  • Evidence-based decision making: analysis of reliable control, measurement, and audit data.

Responsibility and commitments

  • The management of the QMD assumes responsibility for the effectiveness of the QMS, for the fulfilment of applicable requirements, for communicating the Policy to employees, and for creating the conditions for its implementation.
  • Employees of the QMD are obliged to comply with the Policy, to follow the established requirements, and to put forward proposals for improving processes.
  • The management of the QMD commits to continually improve the QMS and to regularly review this Policy in order to keep it current and aligned with the changing requirements and expectations of interested parties.

Accredited laboratories

The laboratories of the Quality Management Directorate are accredited within the accreditation system of the Republic of Kazakhstan against GOST ISO/IEC 17025-2019 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories".

Quality testing of petroleum products and technical fluids — fuels, oils, solvents and coolants — using GOST methods.

Verification of measuring instruments for mass, pressure, flow rate and quantity of liquids and gases, as well as physico-chemical, thermophysical, temperature, optical-physical and electrical measurements.

Verification of measuring instruments for geometric quantities, mass, pressure, vacuum and electrical quantities, as well as flow rate and quantity of liquids and gases, thermophysical and temperature measurements.

Chemical analysis of copper ores, concentrates and their processing products, determining the content of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, iron, sulphur and other elements.

X-ray spectral analysis of copper ores, concentrates and their processing products, determining the mass fraction of chemical elements: copper, lead, zinc, iron, silver and others.

Certificates and accreditation attestations

ISO 9001:2015 Certificate

0.19 MB, pdf

Accreditation attestation: Testing Laboratory of the Incoming Inspection Section

0.41 MB, pdf

Accreditation attestation: Measuring Instrument Verification Laboratory of the Zhezkazgan Region

0.16 MB, pdf

Accreditation attestation: Chemical Laboratory of the Nurkazgan Concentrating Plant

0.11 MB, pdf

Accreditation attestation: Measuring Instrument Verification Laboratory of the Balkhash Region

0.62 MB, pdf

Accreditation attestation: X-ray Spectral Analysis Testing Laboratory of Zhezkazgan Concentrating Plants No. 1, 2, 3

0.87 MB, pdf