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CEO’S MESSAGE it is with great pleasure i welcome you to our in 2013 we also maintained a strong focus on 3 annual sustainability report. this report ensuring a high standard of safety while still rd demonstrates Qatalum’s continued commitment to meeting our expectations for production. through integrating sustainability practices into the company coordinated efforts between our management and to better align ourselves with Qatar’s national staff we have collectively improved the safety of our development goals. this report clearly captures our employees. Qatalum also strongly values the safety work to enhance our management and governance of its contractors and in 2013 the company forged a systems to improve our sustainability performance. joint Hse committee with all of our contractors. Qatalum made an important stride towards long- our annual sustainability reporting process term management of our economic, environmental, allows us to share our performance, maintain and social performance in 2013 with the creation of transparency, and create an opportunity to engage a new 5-year sustainability strategy. our strategy our stakeholders. this report also aims to meet was created to better align Qatalum to contribute the requirements of the energy and industry, the to realizing the development goals of Qatar national sustainable development industry reporting (sdir) Vision (QnV). programme. 2013 marked Qatalum’s second full year of production. We welcome your thoughts and feedback on this Production increased this year by over 6,000 tonnes. report and on our efforts towards the sustainable However, the globally declining price of aluminium development of the company, industry, and the did not refect an increase in sales revenue. to address state of Qatar. the global shift in the price of aluminium Qatalum began the Qatalum improvement Programme in 2013 Tom Petter Johansen to focus on operational excellence. the gains from ceo this program have already helped improve Qatalum’s performance and will continue to contribute to the success of the company.