Madeco Community

Madeco in 2010 continued to apply its practices with respect to Social Responsibility, reflected in the constant improvements in the quality of life of its personnel, respect and care for the environment and good relations with the community and the various entities with which it is regularly linked through its business.

Training

Training is a basic tool in the Company’s personnel management, expressed in the permanent interest to offer employees development opportunities for improving individual performance, acquiring new skills and promoting team work.

During 2010, part of Madeco’s policy and practice has been to provide finance for its personnel with development potential to undertake technical and professional courses that relate to the characteristics of the job and the challenges of the area in which the employee works. Madeco’s employees also receive different scholarships to subsidize part of the specialization courses related to their work.

Safety

Madeco is committed to the safety and self-care of its personnel, for which it has arranged various training activities to teach and create a consciousness among our workers.

Madeco Chile has managed to reduce its accident rates consistently, from 17.3% in 2004 to 7.3% in 2010.

Benefits for our personnel

Madeco and its subsidiaries arrange support programs for improving the quality of life of its employees and families, with special interest in balance and wellbeing. The Company has thus carried out plans to promote healthy lives. It also provides for preventive check-ups to prevent future illnesses.

Madeco Mills successfully maintains its policy for the prevention of drug consumption and alcohol abuse in order to promote a better working environment and a better quality of family life.

Presence in the community

Madeco and its subsidiaries maintain a firm commitment with the surroundings in which they operate and with the associated community, carrying out harmonious and mutually-beneficial work.

Aluflex, supported by contributions from its employees and the company, patronizes the “Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Fátima“, which has a community canteen that attends 80 children from poor backgrounds. It also contributes to infant health through the “Fundación Garrahan” and with “Remar”, an NGO that cares for people in a marginal social situation.

For its part, Peruplast supports a series of social activities with various non-profit institutions, particularly with contributions to the “Hogar Clínica San Juan de Dios” and the “Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño”.

Madeco Chile and Alusa have continued their historic support for charitable institutions. Alusa continued with its help and donations to the “Hogar de Cristo”, “Fundación las Rosas” and “Fundación Ayuda a la Iglesia que Sufre”, among others. Madeco Mills also continued with its contributions to the “Corporación la Esperanza” and “Hogar de Cristo”. The first of these organizations helps poor people with alcohol and drug problems, supporting them in the difficult rehabilitation process.

The work carried out with “Hogar de Cristo” is shown once again by periodic visits by the company’s personnel to the Nos old people’s home.