Annual Report

SINCE 1953 IRI Building Lebanese University Campus Hadath (Baabda) - Lebanon Tel/Fax: +961 5 467831 Mobile: +961 3 286340 P.O. Box: 1107-2806 Beirut 2 010 Annual Report WWW.IRI.ORG.LB 1 Index IRI in brief ..................................................................... 5 Foreword by the Director General ........................................ 6 1. IRI services and activities ................................................. 9 2. Cooperation agreements .................................................. 25 3. Official visits, conferences & seminars inside & outside Lebanon .. 39 4. Training sessions .......................................................... 59 5. International accreditation .............................................. 65 6. Fairs ......................................................................... 69 7. Lebanese Center for Cleaner Production (LCPC) ..................... 73 8. European-Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernization -ELCIM ... 83 9. IRI Relations with ministries and public institutions .................. 89 10. IRI relations with the private sector ................................... 95 11. Development of human resources & laboratory equipment ......... 99 12. Ongoing employee training ............................................. 107 13. Development and research policy ......................................117 14. Internationa'l and local partnerships ................................ 123 15. Introducing IRI ........................................................... 127 16. Decrees and decisions .................................................. 135 17. Newspaper clippings ..................................................... 139 2 3 IRI in Brief Established in 1953, the IRI is a Lebanese institution for studies, industrial research and scientific testing and analysis. It is a Conformity Assessment Body; it delivers quality system certification, product certification and certification of persons. IRI is a not-for-profit institution, declared of public utility by D/L n° 10059 dated 17 August 1955, linked to the Ministry of Industry by Law n° 642/1997, with administrative and financial autonomy. The activities and services of the Institute are organized to realize the fol- lowing aims: To conduct studies and research relevant to the establishment of new industries To investigate and disseminate information about available raw materials with a view to defining their use and establishing the best means for their exploitation To provide, on an international scientific level, reliable services in testing and analysis and to grant certificates of quality or conformity with standards and purchase specifications To provide specialized technological, management and economic consulting services to existing industries and industrial development schemes To maintain close co-operation with official institutions, industrial organizations, and development boards both on the national and international levels in matters relating to the industrial development of the country. Our Ethical Standards In carrying out its functions, the Institute adheres to ethical and professional standards whereby it safeguards the client’s best interests and regards as the client’s property any information, processes, patents or techniques developed during work for him and safeguards such matters in complete secrecy. 4 5 Foreword by the Director General The Institute is proud of its extensive cooperation and between the Lebanese Centre for Cleaner with the international commissions concerned about Production and the Faculty of Agriculture at the industrial research, in particular the institutions that Lebanese University. The Institute launched also gave it the right to adopt their emblem to confirm the the Food Consulting Unit in collaboration and safety of the industrial products and their conformity partnership between the Institute and the Lebanese with the international standards and specifications. Chambers, Universities, and the Association of This cooperation is translated whether by Food Industries, in order to develop food products checking the updates of these specifications, or by and improve the export capabilities, and packaging, participating in scientific seminars and discussions and to maintain the quality within the international that clarify new concepts or develop them, as well required specifications, and help them to enter new as by the attendance by of worldwide seminars and markets and increase their productivity. workshops, and in this regard, the Institute has joined The Industrial Research Institute continues to the membership of the International Organization implement its strategy of always developing and for Non-Destructive Tests. modernizing it’s laboratories, and creating scientific The Institute has organized scientific workshops on regional and international levels, and has participated in similar seminars and activities; Bassam Frenn The active scientific hive therefore it proved its scientific presence and attendance on the conducted research level, and the Once again and despite all obstacles and hindrances, Under the interactive supervision of the top annually updated research discussions worldwide. the Industrial Research Institute remains to be management, the IRI’s human technical personnel innovations that place it internationally on the list The Institute also sought to expand its influence energetically active. The employees perseverance is were relentless in the upgrading of all activities and of the Scientific Innovation and Development regionally by transferring its scientific knowledge exemplary in it’s relentless Endeavour’s despite the specially in the continuous process of developing Centers. Under the care of its Directorate General and professional expertise to the institutions various sources of difficulties. new methodologies to cover all the requested needs and in cooperation with its technical personnel, the and establishments in Arab, Asian and African As the proverb says “deeds speak more than words”, and fields. Institute continues to register pages of success rarely countries. the rate of growth of IRI’s Activities during the year Not forgetting the activities and efforts made by achieved by a management in its development over On the national level the Institute has strengthened 2010 is outstanding. Scores were broken at more both the European-Lebanese center for Industrial a short period. Despite working against the tides, we its role via concluding cooperation agreements than one activity and level. If we let the numbers Modernization, and the Lebanese center for cleaner aim at a goal of setting a definite positive interactive between the European - Lebanese Centre speak, they would translate more than 270.000 tests production and in collaboration with them to the zone with all those concerned in order to help launch for Industrial Modernization and the and analysis from the laboratories as for studies the benefit of the development of Lebanese industry to the Lebanese industry in the center of globalization Chamber of Commerce, Industry custom files have exceeded 30.000 files. While in guarantee it’s competitiveness in the world market. requirements. and Agriculture of Beirut calibration and metrology more than 8000 activities and Mount Lebanon, were conducted. 6 7 Services1 & Activities 9 Laboratory Activity Compared to the practical realities of the daily work However, this increase did not encompass the various Textile and leather laboratories Civil Engineering and Soil activity in the laboratories of the Industrial Research sections of the laboratory, but the analysis and testing Despite the fact that these laboratories achieved an These laboratories have the second largest share of Institute, which totaled 236,527 during the year in the textile and leather laboratories decreased due to increase in their activity since 2007 at an average tests and analysis after the laboratories of electricity 2010, we can described this activity as a "beehive", the decline of this industry locally. The laboratories annual rate of 6.7 percent, however it receded in and before the Laboratories of chemistry, therefore especially that the daily average rate of testing and activities were distributed statistically as follows: 2010 compared to the previous year, registering accounting for 23 percent for a total of 55 486 tests analysis during the annual working days, has in- 3844 tests and analysis, lower by 155 tests and and analysis, with an increase of 4672 tests and Chemistry Laboratories creased from about 600 to about 800 tests distrib- analysis which rate is 3.87 percent. analysis at a rate of 9.2 percent compared to 2009, The activity and growth of these laboratories are dis- uted to all types of laboratories. while the average annual growth rate has reached tinguished so that they doubled in a year. This activity Oil and paint 15.4 percent since 2007. The average annual growth rate has increased dur- included 50 855 analysis and tests versus only 27,205 Analysis and tests made in oil and paint have in- ing the pack of four years, from 12.5 percent to 17.2 in 2009, with an increase of 23 650 analysis and tests creased by 7.5 percent in 2010, restoring some of Electricity Laboratories percent between 2007 and 2010. These laboratories which rate is 87 percent, and it is a considerable in- its losses in 2007. The analysis and tests reached Their share amounted to 28 percent of the total have achieved a growth rate of 27 percent over the crease that makes the

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