On May 12th, 2006 a Certificate evidencing conformity of the plant’s Quality Management System to international standard ISO 9001:2000 has been granted to “Poltava Crushing Plant – Kernel Group”. Certification has been performed by “Bureau Veritas Quality International Ukraine”. Valeriy Yakybovskiy, Regional manager of “Bureau Veritas” in Chernomorskiy region – Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, President of Ukrainian quality society: “I’m glad to present this certificate to one of the best enterprises in fat-and-oil industry. Such a certificate proves to a consumer that sunflower-seed oil “Shchedriy Dar” is produced under permanent systematic quality control at all the production stages”. Nikolay Gorbanev, Chairman of “Poltava Crushing Plant – Kernel Group”: “Certification of the plant as per ISO standard 9001:2000 confirms adherence of “Poltava Crushing Plant” and “Shchedriy Dar” trade mark to quality. We care about our consumers and thus the technologies are improving all the time and we provide the high quality of sunflower oil”. At the end of year 2005 “Poltavskiy crushing plant” has become the first in Ukraine to launch sunflower-seed oil cold-refining and bottling complex. The main reason for launching the new complex has been the high demand for sunflower – seed oil “Shchedriy Dar” ( the Group’s productive capacities were not sufficient for required production). Moreover, Kernel is planning to implement the Managing System of foodstuff safety (standard ISO 22000) at Poltava Crushing Plant. Since it’s a more strict standard – it will provide a higher safety guarantee of sunflower – seed oil “Shchedriy Dar”. The representatives of supervising authorities, mass media and financial organizations attended presentation of the certificate.