Our Group's Deming Award winning companies include Thai Carbon Black, Thai Acrylic Fibre, Grasim (Birla Cellulosic), Indo Gulf Fertilisers, and Hi-Tech Carbon.
Thai Acrylic achieved the highest recognition for Total Quality Management in the world - the Japan Quality Medal from the Deming Prize committee, Japan. Thai Acrylic is the first company in South East Asia and the third company in the world, outside Japan, to have received the award.
Thai Acrylic has also been conferred the Deming Prize from the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) in 2001.
Thai Carbon Black won the Deming Prize awarded by JUSE, Japan.
All of our major Group companies in India and many in Indonesia, Thailand and Egypt have been recognized with India's IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Awards. The IMC RBNQA awards are India's premier quality awards modeled along the lines of the Malcolm Baldrige criteria of the USA.
The Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital was awarded the 'Performance/Excellence Trophy for its Compassionate Quality Healthcare' by the Indian Merchant Chambers' Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Awards Committee (Mumbai, India).
PT. Elegant won the coveted IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award in 2005. Vikram Cement Works won the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award for the year 2010-11.
UltraTech's Birla White (Jodhpur) received the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award - Performance Excellence Trophy 2012.
JIPM-TPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance - Total Productive Maintenance) Award winning units of Aditya Birla Group are: Aditya Cement, Alexandria Carbon Black, Hi-Tech Carbon, Indo Gulf Fertilizers, Tanfac, Thai Acrylic Fibre, Thai Carbon Black, Thai Epoxy & Allied Products, Thai Polyphosphate & Chemicals, Thai Rayon and Vikram Cement.
Thai Carbon Black won the TPM Consistency Award and the TPM Special Award from JIPM, Japan, in 2003 and 2005 respectively.
Aditya Birla Chemicals (Phosphates Division) won the award for TPM Excellence for (1st category and Consistent Award).
Several of our units in India have been recognized with the coveted Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award. Our winners include Hindalco, Birla White, Rajashree Cement, Vikram Cement, Birla Cellulosic, Grasim Staple Fibre Division - Nagda, Hi-tech Carbon, Grasim Chemical, Tanfac, and Essel Mining.
The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award has been instituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and recognises Indian manufacturing and service organisations that are at the forefront of the quality movement in the country.