Quality

As the largest producer of potato starch and potato starch products (i.e. the so-called modified starches) in the Czech Republic, the joint-stock company LYKEBY AMYLEX, a.s. seeks to maintain its position on the market as a supplier providing only high-quality and safe products at all times, including first class services to its customers. Due to the facts stated above, LYCKEBY AMYLEX, a.s. conducts all its business activities based on a functional quality control system.

The LAX quality control system primarily focuses on:

Customers
Identifying and meeting the needs of the customers, which means that the company is mainly striving to establish a long-term relationship with its customers and to offer maximum services in order to satisfy the customer's requirements and to attempt to anticipate the customer's expectations.

Management
For the purpose of retaining its position on the market, the company has devoted and creative employees, who are not afraid to assume responsibility for their work. Active LYCKEBY AMYLEX, a.s. managers seek to inspire and encourage other employees with their work to achieve improved work performance and higher involvement in meeting corporate objectives.

Employees
The management of LYCKEBY AMYLEX, a.s. exerts effort to create a flexible and live organization by supporting creativity and personal responsibility (authority) of its employees. It offers opportunities to its employees in the area of continuous education and enables them to improve their job positions within the bounds of possibility. Moreover, the company management also guarantees good working conditions to its employees.

Company
LAX uses its best endeavours to conduct all activities in consideration of their possible negative impact on the environment. This means that the company complies with the statutory requirements with respect to the hygiene of foodstuffs, environmental protection, and last but no least, in terms of the safety of its products. The management promotes actions to protect the environment as well as the health and safety of all people, who could be affected by the activities of the organization, whether directly or indirectly.


Resources
In order to secure all of the above-mentioned issues, LYCKEBY AMYLEX, a.s. uses:

 

• qualified and motivated employees
• up-to-date information technologies
• a functional communication system
• a well-defined organization structure and management procedures
• clearly defined working instructions and specifications
• first class manufacturing equipment and infrastructure
• sufficient financial funds
• a functional quality control system in compliance with the ISO 9000 standards (continuously improved and developed since 1997) principles of good manufacturing practice and good hygienic practice
• a functional HACCP system
• a safety programme focused on identifying and implementing preventive measures, which would enable the minimisation of risks that the foodstuff manufactured and marketed and/or purchased and further sold by LAX would be subject to damage or a criminal or terrorist act.

LAX possesses the Kosher Certificate for all of its own products.


Lyckeby Amylex, a.s. participates in the system of packaging waste utilization of the joint-stock company EKO-KOM, a.s.