Quality Policy
We work continuously to certify our products, procedures and personnel, worldwide. Based on our stated Quality Policy, we strive to satisfy numerous standards and certification schemes from all over the globe.
All of the products engineering develops require certification testing and certification body approval.
Company quality policy:
- Ensuring Quality, as a fundamental value of our organization’s corporate culture.
- Demonstrate Quality in offering solutions that consistently satisfy the growing needs of our Customers.
- Provide constant learning, which leads to improvements in the product and the process, constituting itself as a management tool.
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and normative requirements associated with the activity.
- Create safety, hygiene and health conditions in order to prevent injuries, injuries and damages to our Employees.
- Ensuring an effective connection with suppliers in order to enhance mutual partnerships.
- Ensure the continuous improvement of the Quality of ABER’s activities, including the development of the company in a stable and humanized environment.
Certified Quality System
ABER has a Quality Management System certified according to ISO 9001 by APCER since 2002. ABER runs a process oriented business. The processes are the basis for our quality management system, which also include our environmental management system.
The targets of the processes are linked to the overall targets of ABER in order to achieve satisfied customers.
The policy adopted by ABER, Lda. reflect the Group’s commitments to its stakeholders, in addition to focusing on strategic, sustainable development. The Group ultimately aspires to achieving a leading position in all sectors and markets where it operates, by standing out from its competitors and developing solutions able to create value for customers and shareholders.
We believe it is essential to implement and maintain an integrated quality management system, such as to define concrete methodologies, applicable across the entire Company, that will lead to greater autonomy and promote communication between employees.
We are also convinced that our continuous efforts to improve processes and management systems will improve performance across the Company and drive business growth.
The policy is reviewed whenever it is deemed not to reflect Management System standards and guidelines. Goals and targets are defined on a yearly basis, in accordance with the principles and policy described above.
Products
All hydraulic products manufactured in ABER comply with the requirements of the Machinery Directive (Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) and with the following European standards:
• EN ISO 12100:2010 – Safety of machinery – General principles for design — Risk assessment and risk reduction;
• EN ISO 4413:2010 – Hydraulic fluid power – General rules and safety requirements for systems and their components.
All our hydraulic products are designed and manufactured in conformity to the applicable specific and technical standards.
Environmental Policy
The environmental aspects are a natural part in all decisions made.
THIS MEANS THAT:
• We fulfill or surpass laws and regulations
• We strive to reduce the consumption of energy and water
• Accidents and illness is prevented at our workplace
• We take the full life of the product into account in our product development
All employees contribute to the creation and maintenance of a good environment. This is ensured through a daily environmental consideration, for instance through energy savings and sorting of waste.
