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Quarterly Report

First Quarter 2012

Higher Institute for Plastics Fabrication

7798 Al-Kharj Road, New Industrial City, Unit # 1 Riyadh 14331-3244 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tel: 01 4989678, 01 4989600, fax: 01 4989650 email: [email protected],facebook: HIPF2010
http://www.facebook.com/HIPF2010http://www.facebook.com/HIPF2010

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Quarterly Report | 2

Introduction

Higher Institute for Plastics Fabrication is a premiere Institute in the field of Plastics Technology. It was started

on 8th September 2007 as a non-profit institute in an agreement signed by the Ministry of Petroleum and

Mineral Resources, along with Technical and vocational Training Corporation (TVTC), the Eastern

Petrochemicals Company (SHARQ) and the Saudi Petrochemical Development Company (SPDC), Japanese

partner of SHARQ.The establishment of HIPF aims to train Saudi Youth under Japanese Experts supervision to participate as

skilled technicians in the booming plastics industry of theKingdom. HIPF isregistered under licenseno.51109dt.22.12.1430.

Contents

Introduction 2

Activities of HIPF 3

i) Long term Training 3

ii) Advanced Technology Course 3

iii) Short Term Training 3

iv) Technical Services 3

Main Activities of HIPF for first quarter 2012 4

i) 2 Years Diploma Program 4

ii) Technical Visit to Companies 4

Machinery and Equipment 8

HIPF Staff 8

Important Committees 9

Other Activities 10

Activities of HIPF 11

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Activities of HIPFThe HIPF is mainly engaged in following activities:

i) Long Term Training

HIPF is conducting 2 year diploma course which is divided into four semesters.

The first year is dedicated to intensive English language, general subject courses, basic engineering and basic

plastics.

The second year is dedicated to intensive handsontraining on various plastics fabrication technologies.

The trainees spend two months on-the-job training (OJT) in their respective parent/sponsoring company.

ii) Advanced Technology Course

HIPF is also conducting Advanced Technology Course in plastics fabrication. The objective of the course is to

upgrade professionals knowledge and skills in high-performance plastics and advanced fabrication

technologies. It is a six month course covering Engineering Plastics, Strategic Plastics including PC, PMMA, TPE,

and PET as well as advanced fabrication technology including Multi-component Injection Molding, all-Electric

Injection Molding, PET Preform and Stretch Blow Molding.

iii) Short Term Training

HIPF is also conducting short term courses in various plastic processing techniques for updating the knowledge

of technical personnel working in various fields of plastic and allied industries. During these programs,personnel from plastics industries are introduced with the latest trends in technology and get solution to their

technical problems through mutual interaction and exchange of ideas with HIPF professionals.

iv) Technical Services

It is an integral part of the activities of the HIPF. HIPF offers following technical services:

a) Plastics Laboratory Testing:

The plastics testing laboratory of HIPF are well equipped and offeringbest services to the plastic industries by undertaking assignments of

plastics materials/products/composites testing as per the National

and International Standards.

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b) Consultancy Services:

As per the specific needs of the industries, HIPF undertakes consultancy assignments on long-term and short-

term basis. The services are provided by sending technical personnel to the industry to study and solve the

problems. The major areas of consultancy services are;

Material selection for newer products substitution

Trouble shooting in the process and product

Material processing analysis

Main Activities of HIPF for 1st Quarter, 20122 year Diploma Program:

The status of trainees on roll in the Spring Semester commencing from February 18 2012 is as under:

No. Group Semester No. of Trainees on Roll1 Seventh Entry 4th 82

1 Eighth Entry 3rd 69

2 Ninth Entry 2nd 112

3 Tenth Entry 1st 72

Technical visits to companies

For reviewing the progress and performance of graduated trainees and for interaction with Industry for

technical services the HIPF officials visited the following companies during January and February month:

1. SABIC

2. Saudi Plastics Products Co. Ltd.(SAPPCO)

3. Gulf Union Foods Company

4. Rowad National Plastics Co. Ltd. - Riyadh

5. Nova Water-Health Water Bottling Co. Ltd.

6. Chanal Al-Obaid Group

7. Filling & Packing Materials Manufacturing Co. (FIPCO)

8. Al-Abdullatif Industrial Investment Co.

9. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Saudi Arabia

10.Al-Marai

11.Rowad International Plastics - Dammam

12.SABIC-SADAF - Jubail

13.Rabigh Petrochemical & Refining Co.

14.Clorox - Jeddah

15.Clorox - Dammam

16.Saudi Packing and Packaging Company

17.Jazan Development Company (JAZADCO)

18.National Paper Co. (NAPCO) - Dammam

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Short Course for Sheet Extrusion &

Thermoforming

HIPF conducted a short course on Sheet Extrusion &

Thermoforming from 19-21 February 2012. Total 11

industry personnel from SABIC, PPC, ALJ, SIPCHEM, Al-Hoty

Stanger Ltd. Co., and Techno Clading Co. participated in the

program.

Short Course for Pipe Extrusion

HIPF conducted a short course on Pipe extrusionTechnology from 12-14 February 2012.Total 6 industry

personnel from SABIC, TASNEE, SPPI, and Thermal Pipes

Factory participated in the program.

Short Course for Injection Molding

(Not covered in last quarterly report)

HIPF conducted a short course on Injection Molding

Technology from Dec 18-20 2011. Total 17 personnel

participated in the program from Al Marai, SIG Combibloc,

and SABIC.

Audit by CINOP Consultancy Firm:

Drs G.N.Hofma , Hofma Training & Consultancy from CINOP presented the HIPF Assessment and Benchmarking

Report along with HIPF action plan.

Employer Survey for D groups:

Mr. Sanjay Rawat, Education Coordinator and Mr. Ahmed Al-Gheth, Acting Public Relation Manager visited 12

companies in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam where the D group trainees are working for more than 6 months

to do the Employer survey for performance of Trainees. The main companies visited were SAPPCO, Al Zamil,

NAPPCO , Al-Rowad, Al-Khalijiya, Saudi Plastics, Astra polymers, Neproplast, and Saudi Can.

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Testing Services

The HIPF Testing laboratory conducted various test for SABIC Polymer Laboratories as under:

for yield stress, yield strain, stress at break, strain at break and tensile modulus for the Injection

Molded test samples

for yield stress, yield strain, stress at break, strain at break and tensile strength for the various film

samples. for yield stress, yield strain, stress at break, strain at break, tensile strength and tensile modulus for

PVC injection molded samples.

for yield stress, yield strain, stress at break, strain at break, tensile strength and tensile modulus for

Black colored cut from pipe

Official KET

15 Trainees from group F sat in the official KET .The details of the score achieved is as under:

Pass with Merit - 6- Pass

6- A1 level (but 2 of them were 2 points away from passing)

Failed - 7 out of 15 passed with 70 or higher.

For this group only 63 hours of KET preparatory training was given.

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SHORT COURSES FOR THE YEAR 2012

OASIS AND PLASTICS LINK NEWSLETTERS MARCH 2012 ISSUE

RELEASED.

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Machinery and EquipmentsHIPF has state of art molding and extrusion machines to provide training in various fields of Plastics

technology including Blow molding, Blown film, Injection molding, Pipe extrusion, Sheet extrusion and

thermoforming under one roof. The machines are placed in different workshops with proper space for

effective training.

The details of machines are as follows:

Workshop No. ofMachines Company Country

WS1- Injection Molding 15 Arburg Germany

WS2-Blown Film Extrusion 15 Polyrema Germany

WS3-Blow Molding 15 Kautex Germany

WS4-Pipe Extrusion 14 Cincinnati Austria

WS4-Thermoforming 1 Illig Germany

WS4-Sheet Extrusion 1 Reifenhauser Germany

WS5 All Electric Injection Molding 4 Netstal Switzerland

WS5- Multi-component Injection Molding 1 KraussMaffei Germany

WS5-PET Injection Molding 1 Husky Canada

WS5-Stretch Blow Molding 1 Reifenhauser Germany

HIPF Staff

The details of the HIPF staff as on February 2012 is as under:

Total staff on roll 119

No. of Saudi Staff 29

No. of Instructors and Teachers 65

No. of Japanese Experts 9

Eng. Abdullah Naem Al-Shehry, joined as new Senior Instructor, PTL Department on February 13, 2012.

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HIPF Important Committeesa). Plastic Industrial Consulting Committee This committee is composed of the members of HIPF

Management, Factory Managers from different industrial sectors (Al-Marai, Rowad, Al-Watania Plastics,

Obeikan Group, Packaging Product Co., Saudi Plastic Factory, and Al-Sharq & Savola Plastic Co.). This

committee will provide feedback about HIPF activities.

b). Curriculum Steering Committee - This committee serves as the approval committee for all sub-committees

(Practical Professional Subjects, General Subjects, English Subjects, and Theoretical Subjects). A regular

meeting was held to monitor and update the development in every subject.

c). Laboratory Accreditation Committee - This committee is responsible in the preparation of all the necessary

documents, applications, feasibility, etc for the accreditation of HIPFs Plastic Testing Laboratory.

d). HIPF KPI committee - In order to check the performance and Quality of HIPF, the HIPF organization

perspective was studied and a strategic planning model has been designed based on what we can accomplish

in future. In order to achieve this, HIPF KPI committee has been established based on the recommendation of

the Board.This committee will have the following roles: To make the action plans for all the objectives.

Set the target for the objectives.

Arrange for collecting data for the KPIs.

Arrange for the preparation of report.

Updating action plans.

Propose corrective action.

e. KAIZEN Scheme CommitteeThis committee invites suggestion from the employees to upgrade the HIPF

system. The best suggestions are rewarded by the committee.

f. Suggestion scheme Implementation committee-This committee is responsible for the implementation ofthe suggestion which are awarded by Kaizen scheme Committee.

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Other activitiesProminent Visitors: During the first quarter the following were prominent visitors to HIPF

December 2012 (Not included in Quarterly report)

Estechtab

Mr. Mohammad H. Haroon, General Manager, Estechtab + Human

Resource

McKinsey & Company

Carles Cros Segura, McKinsey&Company

Saudi Ceramics

Mr. Agala A. Al-Ghamdi, Training Section Head, Saudi Ceramics + One

personnel

Al Sharq Mr. Mussaed S. Al-Ghamdi, Manager, Packaging & Logistics

Mr. Mohammed N.B. Al-Abdali, Manager, Total Quality & Audit

January 2012

TTC (GIZ)

Mr. Mohammed Moustafa El-Maghawri, Vocational Pedagogy

Assistant, TTC

Mr. Lars Fiechel, Teacher Trainer, TTC (GIZ)

Dr. Stefan Schippers, Coordinator Vocational Pedagogy, TTC (GIZ)

SEHAI Project Team, JCCME

Mr. Junichi YAMAZAKI, Asst. Manager, SEHAI Project Team, JCCMEThermal Pipes Factory

Mr. Hisham A. Al-Shabanah, Thermal Pipes Factory

Saudi Intl. Petrochem Co.

Dr. Salah M. Al-Khatani, Research & Devt., Saudi Intl. Petrochem Co.

Mr. Mohammed Asror, Group Leader-Polymer Processing, Research

& Devt., Saudi Intl. Petrochemical Co.

February 2012

SASO

Mr. Mohammed Al-Askar, Gen. Materials Lab Manager, SASO 2. Eng. Sarhan Al-Wethainani, SASO

JICA

Mr. Mitsutaka Hoshi, JICA Japan, ME & Europe Department

Mr. Munehiro Mishima, Incoming Resident Rep., JICA Riyadh, KSA

Mr. Takashi Akao, Outgoing Resident Rep., JICA Riyadh, KSA

International Labour Organisation

Total of 6 delegates from International Labour Organization and TVTC

TTC

Two Trainers Technical Trainers College

11 Trainees Technical Trainers College

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Welfare and Trainee Activities Graduation Ceremony of HIPF Trainees

HIPF commemorates its 2nd graduation ceremony on December 10, 2011. Trainees graduated are from GROUP

D (4TH

Batch): 127 Graduates, GROUP E (5TH

Batch): 124 Graduates GROUP F (6TH

Batch): 85 Graduates, a total

of 336 graduates.

Farewell party to staff who resigned

Management gave farewell party to three employees

Mr. Roslan Bin Hamid, Mr. Roberto Sistena and Mr.

James Malagueo who resigned. HIPF extended thanks

to them for their valuable contribution.

Best Teacher Award

The Best Teacher of HIPF was selected.

Criteria for Best Teacher Selection were

the teacher who got maximum total

voting from Trainees, HOD and

Japanese Experts was declared as Best

Teacher. For the year 2011 the best

teacher was Mr Edgar Lucero from

Sheet and Thermoforming department.

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Umra Trip for Trainees

HIPF organised UMRA Trip for the trainees

on December 14-16 , 2011. 47 HIPF

trainees with 2 supervisors participated in

the holy visit.

Technical Contest for Trainees

Various workshops organised the Technical contest for the Trainees in order to create competition ethics

among trainees. All the workshops conducted separately according to their idea and creativity .It was like learn

by fun.

Group Discussion Activity

A group discussion activity was organized by Pipe

department in which trainees prepared make

material on charts and make presentation about

various Technical topics in front of other trainees.

This way is a kind of mutual learning.

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Advisory Meetings

Recently we introduced a Advisory system in which each Instructor is advisor for 6-7 trainees and there is

Advisory meeting with trainees on monthly basis. During this meeting the Advisor discuss the weak areas of

performance to Trainees and guide him to take necessary corrective actions.

Best Attendance Trainees awarded

HIPF awarded the trainees who maintained 100% attendance in the four weeks period to motivate the

Trainees

ISO Internal Audit Training

The HIPF Instructors were given training on the ISO 17025 Internal Audit Training which is as per

recommendation from SASO. The training was conducted for 2 days from 21/02/2012 to 22/02/2012.

Total 13 staff from HIPF participated. The Trainer was from Mr Murugan Jairaman from TUV, Dammam.

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Train the Trainers Workshop Presentation

Train the Trainer program was organised by HIPF for all the Teachers and Instructors of HIPF .The program

had two sessionsOne for the Education and Teaching skills another for technical sessions on Polymers.

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