SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
MANAGEMENT POLICY

The largest elastomers producer in Latin America, Petroflex Indústria e Comércio S/A is determined to become the world’s most competitive enterprise in its segment through a Culture of Results, pursuing its mission and accepting the following commitments to ensure its success:

1. Direct all its efforts towards growth and profits obtained through excellent earnings with higher profitability, accepting the commitment to control its costs through deploying available resources with rigor and discipline, allowing attractive remuneration on the investments made by its shareholders.

2. Establish, disseminate and update its organizational values and guidelines through the personal commitment of its Directors, maximizing their performances and directing their actions towards conducting the organization to a position of leadership while boosting its market value.

3. Contribute to the growth of its staff through personal and professional development, encouraging the full use of the potential of the people constituting its workforce, in addition to providing conditions that enhance their value, well-being and motivation.

4. Foster the principles of ethics, culture and social responsibility within Petroflex and elsewhere, ensuring transparency in its corporate activities and actions, reflecting what it really is in an open and straightforward manner, providing its stakeholders with pertinent information.

5. Segment its markets by applications, in order to ensure a keener awareness of the current and future needs of each customer, striving to operate in ways that make it stand out from the competition through innovative approaches to values and standards, thus identifying and responding to the expectations of its customers.

6. Comply with the law and the applicable legal directives as well as other standards to which the organization subscribes.

7. Contribute to economic, social and environmental development in a sustainable manner by minimizing the potential negative impacts of its products and operations on society, not jeopardizing the health and physical integrity of all those interacting with its processes and fostering ongoing improvement through structured management systems that control and assess its activities.

8. Establish partnerships with its suppliers, in order to attain commitments that respond to the expectations of both parties.

Rio de Janeiro, September 21, 2007