COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Our vision and values act as our guiding principles that direct our efforts towards creating a sustainable and mutually beneficial relationship with all our stakeholders. Through the three International Standard Organization (ISO) standards that we proudly attained on top of the Standard Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) mark, we have demonstrated our commitment to be a good corporate citizen. We are active participants in making donations, sponsorships as well as community awareness campaigns that are done through road shows.

Donations
As a responsible corporate citizen we do not earn profits and just sit back, instead we plough back our earnings back into the community around us. We have actively participated in different funds raising programs for the socially, economically and physically disadvantaged. Such initiatives have seen us making substantial donations towards different cities and towns' Mayors Christmas Cheer Funds. 2005 saw Turnall making a donation to the Harare and Bulawayo Mayor’s Christmas Cheer Fund. Apart from that we also made donations to Harare Children’s Home. We have also taken the initiative to sponsor universities and schools.
Road shows
Every year Turnall organizes some indoor road shows in major centers around Zimbabwe. The objective of such shows is to improve the awareness of issues surrounding the safe usage and handling of products made from Chrysotile asbestos fibre. The majority of the audiences invited at these road shows are our major customers or distributors, engineers, architects, polytechnic and university students. The audience is expected to disseminate the information to the end users that may not be aware of the asbestos issues being mystified by the anti-asbestos lobbyists from western countries.

Golf day
2005 saw Turnall venturing in to something that had never been done before, golf day that was held sometime in October. The day provided an informal arena for business people form different backgrounds to share experiences and for Turnall to say thank you to all the stakeholders for supporting the company through and through. The tournament was a success and it is actually going to become an annual event.

Sponsorships
Turnall also actively sponsor Turnall Football Club that has now been promoted to division one of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA). Turnall athletics team that has performed in a number of races i.e. .Comrades Marathon (SA), Matopos 33 Miler, Schweppes Executive Relay. Other organizations such as the Law Society of Zimbabwe also received some sponsorship from Turnall for their annual conference.
The following are some the initiatives we have done to demonstrate our commitment to good corporate citizenship: -
Donated 600 roofing sheets to the Government initiated Operation Garikai Phase 1. A donation of roofing sheets was also made to the two schools in Matebeland i.e Marist Brothers Secondary School and Manqe Primary School
NUST Award for the best student in Industrial Processes Dept of Applied Chemistry.
A donation was made to the Zimbabwe Women’s University in Africa‘s first graduation ceremony.
Active membership participation in the National Chysotile Asbestos Taskforce. (NCATF)
Sponsored St Giles Medical Rehabilitation Centre annual charity golf tournament to raise funds to buy a generator for the centre.
Turnall is also sponsoring a golfer, James Muyewa who started off as a caddie and has now turned professional.

Turnall News

Turnall Fibre Cement PR activities are aimed at marketing and building the company’s image and improving the bottom-line. Corporate Turnall PR unit is there to manage press relations, product publicity, corporate communications, lobbying and the company’s position or image.

Turnall runs a newsletter that is distributed to various stakeholders. This is a tool for disseminating news about the company and / or its products or people. The in-house news is there to capture any milestones that Turnall has gone through and also to provoke stakeholders’ interest in any future prospects of the company. Both the newsletter and press news assists in maintaining the shareholders’ confidence on the Turnall counter. The main PR task is news generation / preparation and to get the media to accept Turnall’s editorial or press release or to cover us on a particular story. Turnall newsletter is broad in its focus in order to cover all the developments surrounding the organization. It builds awareness and credibility of any issues at Turnall.

Turnall is the first manufacturing company in Zimbabwe to implement an integrated quality and environmental management system at the same time ISO 9001: 2000 & ISO 14001: 2004. In addition to that we also have Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 14001). Turnall is the only company in Zimbabwe to have the three systems operating under one roof i.e. ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14001: 2004 and OHSAS 14001.

We are currently integrating all the certified systems and others such as the Social Accountability Standard (SA8000) and the HIV /AIDS proactive response in the world of work based on the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS in to a single System and eventually a Turnall Excellence Business Model.

In order to increase the efficiency and to address complaints regarding our computer network, Turnall embarked on an ERP system that saw us moving from MFG-PRO to NAVISON system. The NAVISION ERP system whose focus was the computerization of company – wide operations including production processes, processes that often get left behind in most companies. The system will not only enhance customer turnaround times (invoicing etc) but will also allow us to improve operational efficiencies elsewhere in the plants.

Turnall operates under a vibrant team of top management. The Board Chairman is Mr H Nkala while the Managing Director is Mr. John A Jere, Finance Director is Mr. Robert Dube, Marketing Director is Mr. Edwin Kondo, Technical Director is Mr. F. Chigwedere, and Human Resources Director is Mrs. Elizabeth Mamukwa.