OCTAL wins Green Footprint Award

OCTAL was declared the winner of the Green Footprint Award at the Oman Green Awards 2012 held in Muscat. Oman Green Awards is the Sultanate's first Environmental Awards that honour outstanding environmental vision, endeavours and achievements of corporates and individuals. OCTAL won the Green Footprint Award category for its efforts in initiating measures to effectively reduce its carbon footprint.

 "OCTAL is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its day-to-day operations by integrating environmental management as a standard business practice across the organisation. We have invested more than $600 million in this area for the deployment of ground-breaking technology and propriety production methods to produce PET resin and PET sheet with the lowest carbon footprint in the world. We believe in continuous improvement and transparency and therefore have engaged third party sustainability experts to analyse, track and disclose our environmental performance," expressed Nicholas Barakat, CEO of OCTAL. www.octal.com