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Teflon ® —Brand Assurance When you specify DuPont™ Teflon® Industrial Bakeware Coating Systems for your industrial bakeware trays and moulds, you can rest assured that your products have met rigorous quality standards. Your reputation as an Industrial Bakery is on the line with your customers. You need to supply to them the highest quality and consistency of bread on time – every time. DIBS Coating Systems have to be applied and controlled during the application process by Licensed Applicators according to the strictest of standards laid down in the terms and conditions of the DIBS Licensed Applicator Trademark License Agreement (TMLA). The DIBS control programmes include the following: Global quality specifications must be met per the aforementioned TMLA which include Brand Assurance Qualification testing conducted by DuPont and an initial coating Line Qualification for each and every DIBS Coating System. This Qualification is known as an ‘IQ’ or ‘Initial Qualification’. Each DIBS Applicator must have signed a three (3) year DIBS trademark license agreement with DuPont and upon signature and initial ‘IQ’, DuPont issues the initial appropriate ‘license to operate’ certificate. Subsequent to the IQ, each DIBS Licensed Applicator is subject to an annual audit, also conducted by DuPont, to ensure that the DIBS system selection, application methodology and process control continue to meet the rigorous standards. This qualification is known as a ‘Routine Qualification’ or ‘RQ’. Subsequent to a satisfactory result from the annual ‘RQ’, DuPont issues an ‘Audit Certificate’ which clearly states the DIBS systems for which each licensee is authorised and the period of authorisation. DIBS Coating Systems must be applied to the trays and moulds at all times in full compliance to the DuPont specifications and no products from competition can be used in any DIBS system being sold under the Teflon® brand. DuPont has the means to analyse and check as to whether any DIBS coating system is genuine or counterfeit and DuPont will at random as well as on a periodic basis pull in trays and mould for analytical checks. DuPont has the right at any time also to carry out ‘random audits’ on any of its DIBS Licensed Applicators premises. Seal Programme DIBS Licensed Marketers – Licensees which have signed a DIBS Marketer trademark license agreement with DuPont which sell trays and moulds coated by a DIBS Licensed Applicators, have the right to promote and sell their coated trays and moulds under the Teflon® brand and also the right to use their customised DIBS co-branding ‘Marketer Seals’. Each DIBS Licensed Marketer will have entered into a three (3) year agreement with DuPont and upon the appointment as such, DuPont issues to each Marketer a ‘certificate of authorisation’ which will clearly state the types of trays and moulds and the DIBS coating systems each Marketer licensee is authorised to promote and sell. DIBS Licensed Marketers are permitted to use the aforementioned seals and certificates on their promotional literature, invoices, shipping documents, exhibition stands and on their websites. They are also authorised to apply seals physically to their DIBS coated trays and moulds and on packaging when preparing shipments to their customers. DIBS Licensed Applicators have their own seals and there are three (3) levels of DIBS Qualification. Stage 1 – ‘Qualified’, Stage 2 – ‘Premier’ and Stage 3 – ‘Master’. By definition Premier and Master Applicators will have been ‘qualified’ by DuPont for more DIBS systems and different types of trays and moulds than a Stage 1 ‘Qualified Applicator. Premier and Master Applicators will be able to use ‘co-branding’ just like DIBS Licensed Marketers for their promotional activities. None the less ‘Qualified Applicators‘ will be permitted to use their seals and certificates on their invoices, shipping documents, websites, exhibition stands, and in their promotional literature, just like DIBS Licensed Marketers. The Brand Assurance Programme – BAP In addition to the aforementioned IQ and the RQ programmes to protect the quality of your DIBS systems coated trays and moulds, DuPont also protects your investment by complying with all relevant and appropriate global food contact regulations. DuPont will also be aggressively policing its intellectual property (IP) – patents, trademarks and copyrights – and the authenticity of all DIBS Teflon® branded coating systems throughout the distribution value chain. To find out more about the DIBS Brand Assurance programme, contact your DuPont account manager directly or visit our DIBS website at www.dibs.dupont.com The Teflon® Brand Assurance Programme:
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Teflon®—Brand Assurance
When you specify DuPont™ Teflon® Industrial Bakeware Coating Systems for your industrial bakeware trays and moulds, you can rest assured that your products have met rigorous quality standards. Your reputation as an Industrial Bakery is on the line with your customers. You need to supply to them the highest quality and consistency of bread on time – every time. DIBS Coating Systems have to be applied and controlled during the application process by Licensed Applicators according to the strictest of standards laid down in the terms and conditions of the DIBS Licensed Applicator Trademark License Agreement (TMLA).
The DIBS control programmes include the following:
Global quality specifications must be met per the aforementioned TMLA which include Brand Assurance Qualification testing conducted by DuPont and an initial coating Line Qualification for each and every DIBS Coating System. This Qualification is known as an ‘IQ’ or ‘Initial Qualification’.
Each DIBS Applicator must have signed a three (3) year DIBS trademark license agreement with DuPont and upon signature and initial ‘IQ’, DuPont issues the initial appropriate ‘license to operate’ certificate.
Subsequent to the IQ, each DIBS Licensed Applicator is subject to an annual audit, also conducted by DuPont, to ensure that the DIBS system selection, application methodology and process control continue to meet the rigorous standards. This qualification is known as a ‘Routine Qualification’ or ‘RQ’. Subsequent to a satisfactory result from the annual ‘RQ’, DuPont issues an ‘Audit Certificate’ which clearly states the DIBS systems for which each licensee is authorised and the period of authorisation.
DIBS Coating Systems must be applied to the trays and moulds at all times in full compliance to the DuPont specifications and no products from competition can be used in any DIBS system being sold under the Teflon® brand. DuPont has the means to analyse and check as to whether any DIBS coating system is genuine or counterfeit and DuPont will at random as well as on a periodic basis pull in trays and mould for analytical checks.
DuPont has the right at any time also to carry out ‘random audits’ on any of its DIBS Licensed Applicators premises.
Seal Programme
DIBS Licensed Marketers – Licensees which have signed a DIBS Marketer trademark license agreement with DuPont which sell trays and moulds coated by a DIBS Licensed Applicators, have the right to promote and sell their coated trays and moulds under the Teflon® brand and also the right to use their customised DIBS co-branding ‘Marketer Seals’.
Each DIBS Licensed Marketer will have entered into a three (3) year agreement with DuPont and upon the appointment as such, DuPont issues to each Marketer a ‘certificate of authorisation’ which will clearly state the types of trays and moulds and the DIBS coating systems each Marketer licensee is authorised to promote and sell.
DIBS Licensed Marketers are permitted to use the aforementioned seals and certificates on their promotional literature, invoices, shipping documents, exhibition stands and on their websites. They are also authorised to apply seals physically to their DIBS coated trays and moulds and on packaging when preparing shipments to their customers.
DIBS Licensed Applicators have their own seals and there are three (3) levels of DIBS Qualification. Stage 1 – ‘Qualified’, Stage 2 – ‘Premier’ and Stage 3 – ‘Master’. By definition Premier and Master Applicators will have been ‘qualified’ by DuPont for more DIBS systems and different types of trays and moulds than a Stage 1 ‘Qualified Applicator. Premier and Master Applicators will be able to use ‘co-branding’ just like DIBS Licensed Marketers for their promotional activities. None the less ‘Qualified Applicators‘ will be permitted to use their seals and certificates on their invoices, shipping documents, websites, exhibition stands, and in their promotional literature, just like DIBS Licensed Marketers.
The Brand Assurance Programme – BAP
In addition to the aforementioned IQ and the RQ programmes to protect the quality of your DIBS systems coated trays and moulds, DuPont also protects your investment by complying with all relevant and appropriate global food contact regulations. DuPont will also be aggressively policing its intellectual property (IP) – patents, trademarks and copyrights – and the authenticity of all DIBS Teflon® branded coating systems throughout the distribution value chain.
To find out more about the DIBS Brand Assurance programme, contact your DuPont account manager directly or visit our DIBS website at www.dibs.dupont.com
The Teflon® Brand Assurance Programme:
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The DIBS Teflon® Coating Systems Brand Assurance Programme – BAPIn order for DIBS Marketers to use the Teflon® brand name to promote industrial bakeware trays
and moulds which have been coated with one of the DIBS coating systems, they must have a DIBS
Marketer Agreement with DuPont. In addition the DIBS coating system applied to any such trays
and moulds must have been applied by a Licensed DIBS Applicator.
It is important to remember that Licensed Applicator Lines have to be separately qualified by each
DIBS coating system. There are Initial Qualifications (IQ) and annual Routine Qualifications (RQ).
This is how the brand assurance line auditing and the seal programmes operate:
Applicator DuPont Pass
Fail
◆ Carries out initial line & process control checks
◆ Performs initial qualification - IQ
◆ Performs annual routine qualification - RQ
◆ Performs Random DIBS Applicator audit
Brand Assurance test report sent to applicator
Upgrade line and/or process control
◆ Progress to full IQ
◆ DuPont issues certificate
◆ DuPont re-issues certificate
◆ No action until next RQ
Seal
Pro
cess BAP Report sent by DuPont to Applicator on each occasion
DuPont verifies if Marketer and/or applicator complies with IQ and/or RQ
Seals/Artwork Issued Correction or re-application or renewal of IQ or RQ
Seal and Artwork request to DuPont by Marketer and/or Applicator for DIBS Systems for which they have been qualified
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◆ Request initial qualification test application
◆ Provide samples and programme details
◆ Participate in annual DIBS line audit
◆ Be subject to random DuPont AuditLine audit
The DIBS coating systems are as follows:
Flat & Small Indented Trays DIBS coating categories FXX
Deep Drawn Moulds DIBS coating categories DXX
Perforated trays - DIBS coating category PXX.
Specialty Bakery Solutions DIBS coating categories SXX
John W. MoriartyGlobal Business and Market Director
Fluoropolymer Solutions
DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts
is a
of DuPont Industrial Bakery Solutions
Qualified Applicator
This is to certify that
Quality Assurance CertificateLicensed Applications:
Valid through to:
© 2011 DuPont. DuPont™, The miracles of science™ and Teflon® are trademarks or registered trademarks of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
John W. MoriartyGlobal Business and Market Director
Fluoropolymer Solutions
DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts
is a
of DuPont Industrial Bakery Solutions
Licensed Marketer
This is to certify that
Quality Assurance CertificateLicensed Applications:
Valid through to:
TEFLON® is a registered trademark of DuPont.
LICENSED MARKETER
TEFLON® is a registered trademark of DuPont.
D I B S DuPont Industrial Bakery Solutions
TEFLON ® is a registered trademark of DuPont TM .
D I B S DuPont Industrial Bakery Solutions
QUALIFIED
APPLICATOR
