Amelco Desiccants earns ISO 9001 certification

Amelco Desiccants, a 100-percent Filipino-owned manufacturer of desiccant products, has been awarded an ISO 9001 certification – the highest international standard for product design, innovation and manufacturing excellence among the ISO 9000 series – by the world-renowned certifying body TUV Product Services.

Amelco chief executive officer Randy Concepcion announced that the ISO 9001 award will be formally presented by TUV officials during a dinner-dance party to be hosted by the Amelco management and staff for their long-time clients on Jan. 12 at the Manila Southwoods Sports Club in Carmona, Cavite.

Experts from TUV Product Services inspected Amelco’s production operations late last year and were impressed by Amelco’s capabilities to design and customize a wide range of world-class moisture absorbent desiccant products for the controlled atmosphere packaging needs of various industries throughout Asia and the rest of the world.

"With its advanced manufacturing and testing facilities, Amelco innovates and produces more than a hundred various types of moisture absorbent solutions, each suitable for specific needs of manufacturers, even those with the most stringent quality standards," Concepcion said.

As the leader in the domestic desiccant market, Amelco supplies more than 80 percent of the pharmaceutical industry’s moisture solutions requirements, and is now addressing the needs of the high-technology industries in the electronic, computer and semi-conductor manufacturing fields.

Concepcion said his company started as Amelco Merchandising in 1979, supplying moisture absorbent bags to the Philippine handicraft industry, and shortly, the footwear industry.

Today, it has grown into global company, exporting world-class desiccants to the Asian, Australian, European and American continents.