The focus on maintaining its activities in accordance with high quality standards has led inpEV to accumulate important achievements in 2015.

At the beginning of the year, in January 2015, the institute received the NBR ISO 9001:2008 re-certification, valid for three years. The assessment process for certification purposes, obtained for the first time in 2012, is ongoing and ensures that the appropriate procedures of the Quality Management System are being complied with.

For this, the co-management process carried out by inpEV at the central stations of the Campo Limpo System, the receiving processes, packaging segregation, compression, storage, and shipment for final disposal by the plants managed directly by the institute - which until then were two, Rondonópolis (MT) and Taubaté (SP) - logistics management and final disposal of empty crop protection packagings returned to the SCL receiving units was monitored.

The management carried out by the institute’s board of directors was publicly acknowledged. inpEV’s presiding director, João Cesar M. Rando, received the Agribusiness Lide award in September, in the Agricultural Crop Protection category. Promoted by the Business Leaders Group (Lide), this award ceremony took place during the 4th National Agribusiness Forum in Campinas (SP). In December, Rando was considered one of the top one hundred most influential names in agribusiness in the fertilizers and inputs, Crop / Animal protection category in a list published by magazine Dinheiro Rural [Rural Money].