Logistics Service Providers and Distributors
Want to play an active role in shaping the future of SQAS while strengthening your company’s visibility and network within the chemical supply chain?
More than 800 logistics service providers and distributors are assessed through SQAS every year. Of these, more than 100 are members of the Logistics Service Providers and Distributors (L&D) User Group.
The L&D Group is a community of companies that provide logistics services or distribute chemicals and are assessed under SQAS. It brings these companies together so they can share their experience and help improve how the SQAS system works in practice.
Members of the group take part in discussions about SQAS rules, guidance, and assessment questionnaires, and can contribute to how the system is developed over time. This includes involvement through SQAS decision-making groups such as the Technical & Accreditation (T&A) Committee and the Executive Committee.
The L&D Group works alongside other SQAS user communities, such as chemical companies (SQAS Service Group and ESAD users group). It ensures that the perspective of logistics providers, including transport operators, tank cleaning companies, and chemical distributors, is considered in SQAS decisions and improvements.
Why join the L&D Group
Influence & Representation
Join the L&D Group to have a say in how SQAS evolves, through potential representation in the SQAS T&A Committee and Executive Committee. This gives assessed companies a direct voice in priorities, such as questionnaire updates and guidance clarifications that affect assessments.
Practical guidance & peer learning
Through exclusive, free-of-charge training and Q&A sessions, members access practical interpretations of requirements that support assessment preparation and lead to improved scoring.
Automatic access to Tank Cleaning reports
Membership in the L&D Group includes automatic access to SQAS Tank Cleaning assessment reports. This allows logistics providers and distributors to review the quality and compliance status of tank cleaning stations without extra subscriptions or separate requests. It simplifies supplier qualification, supports safety and hygiene standards, and reduces administrative effort when planning or auditing cleaning operations
Early insight into changes
Members gain early visibility of upcoming changes and the opportunity to shape clarifications before they go live.
Pathways to leadership
Through formal election procedures for L&D seats on the SQAS T&A Committee and Executive Committee, engaged companies can step on leadership roles and help steer priorities that matter to logistics and distributors.
Collaboration
Collaborate and share best practices with other companies.
Our network of members of the Logistics & Distributors user group
ALFRED SCHUON GMBH
Alisan Lojistik A.S.
AUG. Hedinger GMBH & CO. KG
Brenntag SE
CONAP SCRL
Forwardis
G.S. V/D IJSSEL BV
GCATRANS
GRUBER GMBH & Co KG
Helm AG
Hermann Bussmann GmbH
James Lynch & Sons (Transport) Ltd
KRAHN CHEMIE Deutschland GmbH
KUBE & KUBENS
Quimidroga SA
STAR POLSKA TRANSPORT MIGDZYNARODOWY
TRANSPORTS ISMERT
TRANSPORTES TEIFER
Trimodal Europe BV
WTR Willicher GmbH
“At KATOEN NATIE we strongly support SQAS as a standard for all our sites, setting industry values and requirements, which are frequently updated and are evaluated by specialised accessors who not only check paperwork but also verify the practical implementation at the workplace.”
Marc Hendrickx
BU HSSEQ Manager, KATOEN NATIE Petrochemicals
“For almost 20 years, our company has been SQAS assessed. SQAS is an objective, transparent assessment system which supports the company to improve the process flows and to comply with legal requirements. The assessment gives a perfect picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the company so that we can continuously improve.”
Kristel Verstraeten
SHEQ Manager, Transport Mervielde
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