Quality

GPF is committed to quality and exceeding both global and regional industry standards. and to satisfy the company’s need for a systematic procedure operated by an effective and efficient Quality Control department within the organization. GPF has a full laboratory on site allowing our staff to fully and frequently test our ongoing production, ensuring optimum quality and resulting customer satisfaction. GPF’s HDPE geomembranes exceed the Best Practice Environmental Management (BPEM) for Victoria, a key benchmark for the Australasian environmental containment industry. GPF’s HDPE geomembranes also exceed the global industry standards set by the Geosynthetic Research Institute (GRI) Geomembrane related (GM) standards, GM13 (HDPE), as tested and certified by multiple international independent expert plastics and polymer laboratories including:

• TRI Environmental, a leading independent, third party geosynthetics firm providing geosynthetics testing and research services to the international community through its offices in the United States, Australia and China; and
• Excelplas, Australia’s leading independent plastics testing, polymer testing, geomembrane testing and rubber testing provider.
  All company staff are highly committed to follow GPF Manufacturing Quality Control Manual in order to meet all published and international Quality Control standards at all times.

GPF QC department issues a QC Test Certificate for any roll as per the customer needs.

The following testing procedure is followed by GPF QC & Production Staff on all GPF products:

• Testing the Raw Materials before starting production.
• Testing colored Masterbatches before starting production.
• Testing Anti-oxidant and UV stabilizer before starting production.
• On-going spark testing in production line to ensure and confirm the none existence of any pin holes in the products.
• Physical and Chemical tests on all products as per the ASTM Test Methods to ensure their compatibility with the GRI-GM13 or GRI-GM17 standards.