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ChAIRMAn’S MESSAGE Welcome to Qatalum’s third annual sustainability standards and practices to make them more report. this report shares our progress and effective while maintaining safety and quality. as a achievements in 2013 towards becoming more result of this, every one of Qatalum’s departments, sustainable. this is our third year of participating in from operations to procurement, have experienced the sustainable development industry reporting a positive change in their performance. (sdir) Programme. For the sdir Programme we also included in this report our progress towards more Qatalum has continued to grow in sustainable ways fully integrating sustainability into our management this year. in 2013 we produced aluminium for our and company strategy. frst two local clients. this was a major step towards our goal of developing the local downstream Qatalum continues to incorporate sustainability economy and we look forward to developing more into its management and governance. in 2013, we local clients in the future. this year, in partnership revised our sustainability framework and created with Hydro, we also opened the Zero energy and a 5-year sustainable development plan, both emission building lab where we are developing of which serve to integrate sustainability into aluminium products that will support some of the our management and operations. in the 5-year most environmentally sustainable buildings in the plan Qatalum’s focus areas include governance middle east. and management, downstream development, innovation and product development, improving We present this report as an honest and transparent supply chain management, and reducing our presentation of our company’s 2013 performance. environmental impact. We also hope this report will serve as a point of engagement for all of our stakeholders. as we entered our second full year of production we also began to refect on how we could become regards, more effcient and effective. to do this we introduced the Qatalum improvement Program, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Al-Shaibi which aims to continuously improve working chairman of the board of directors