Petrochemicals Wins Middle East Business Continuity Institute Award
The company announced its win of the 2026 Regional Business Continuity Institute Award to enhance supply chain resilience, reflecting its institutional maturity.
Translated by Qiyas from الراي — Original source
Kuwait Petrochemical Industries Corporation (KPC) announced that it has received the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Middle East Award for 2026 in the category of Most Effective Strategy for Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience. The company noted that this award reinforces its distinguished trajectory and adds professional recognition from one of the leading global organizations specializing in business continuity and resilience.
In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Tuesday, the company said this achievement solidifies its position among global leaders in business continuity and resilience.
It added that this victory gains additional significance as it qualifies the company for the global award within the Institute’s awards, following a notable achievement in 2025 when it won the regional award in the same category before subsequently being crowned with the BCI Global Award for 2025. This reflects the maturity of its institutional approach to treating business continuity as a permanent strategic priority.
The company emphasized that combining the regional and global awards in 2025 marks an important milestone in its journey, noting that “its practices have not only been appreciated at the regional level but have also received global recognition from the same specialized body.”
It clarified that this prior achievement gives the 2026 regional victory added depth, as it represents a consistent path in developing a resilient supply chain system and linking business continuity with governance, sustainability, and long-term preparedness.
It stressed that winning the regional award in 2026, following previous global recognition in 2025, leaves no doubt that Kuwait Petrochemical Industries Corporation’s experience has become an institutional model for transforming resilience from a precautionary measure into a permanent governance element within the business sustainability framework.
The company outlined that among its efforts to enhance business sustainability and resilience are strengthening long-term inventories of critical materials and spare parts, reducing reliance on a single supplier, qualifying human resources involved in business continuity, and conducting detailed business impact analyses while aligning various departments with resilience requirements.
It added that these requirements have been incorporated into contractual frameworks, alternative suppliers have been approved, and periodic evaluation and audit mechanisms have been applied to suppliers, thereby enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of supply chains.
It pointed out that these efforts have yielded tangible operational results, including improved availability of critical materials, enhanced inventory levels, and increased contractual resilience, all of which support production continuity and the company’s ability to fulfill its commitments to clients and partners.
