Tema, June 07 GNA-Mr. Yohane Amarh Ashitey, the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) has commended Tema Lube Oil Company (TLOC) for the developmental projects they have initiated as part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) within the metropolis.
“The Tema Lube Oil Company has been consistent at satisfactorily discharging its Corporate Social Responsibilities over the years, the company has partnered the Assembly in bringing development to the people,” he said.
Mr. Anthony Ampadu Adjei, Tema Metropolitan Authority (TMA) Director of Budget, represented Mr. Ashitey, at the company’s 30th-anniversary celebration which was on the theme “30 years of producing world-class lubricant”.
Mr. Ashitey noted that the theme for the celebration was an accurate depiction of what the company had stood for over the years.
He mentioned that “maintaining such high standards doesn’t come easily at all, it requires a sense of focus, discipline, hard work, and right leadership.”
The MCE indicated that, over the years, the company had consistently presented a tricycle to the overall best farmer in the Metropolis saying that each of the projects embarked on by the company as CSR had met the needs of the beneficiary communities.
“The Police Station at the Tema Industrial area was timely while the Dental Clinic at the Tema Manhean Polyclinic filled a major gap in providing efficient and effective dental health services to the people,” he added.
Mr. Ashitey praised the company for handing over an ultramodern science laboratory to the Chemu Senior High Technical School in Tema saying it would go a long way to enhance science education in the Metropolis.
He said the company was impacting key sectors of the Metropolis including education, agriculture, security, and local economic development.
Mr. Amos Donkor, Managing Director of the Tema Lube Oil Company said it had manufactured lubricants to feed the market through the wholesale marketing of its production to oil marketing companies and also for institutions both locally and internationally.
He indicated that the company had also obtained three International Organizations for Standardization (ISO) including ISO 9001: 2015, in Quality Management System, 14001: 2015, Environment Management, and ISO 45001: 2018 in Occupation Health and Safety Management System.
Mr. Donkor said “since the inception of the company, we have been adding on to everything we have, the manpower, list of achievement, areas we deal in within to the enthusiasm and dedication for work and responsibility, in our view we have made the dreams of our forefathers come through”.
He however said the proliferation of lowly priced substandard lubricants into the market negatively impacted the volumes significantly adding that the absence of a legalizing a National Minimum Standard for lubrication is a major contribution to the phenomenon.
Mr. Alex Josiah Adzew, Board of Chairman of Tema Lube Oil Company said the company over the years had undergone changes but had become stronger and more efficient than before.
He said the contribution of lube oil to the economy of the country could not be overemphasized and urged Ghanaians to patronize lube oil as it was of high quality.
He said as a science and technology-based factory, it was important to invest and augment the government’s vision of upscaling the teaching and learning of science in schools, especially in less endowed schools.
Mr. Adzew urged the public to patronize Tema Lube Oil Company products which included engine oils, industrial oils, gear oils, hydraulic oils, other machine oils, and others to enable them to provide more of such projects to schools, hospitals, and the communities.