Fertilizer firms certified

JP/afs

JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Industry and Trade Tunky Ariwibowo yesterday presented five state-owned fertilizer manufacturers ISO-9000 and ISO-14000 certificates for quality and environmental management systems.

The five were PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur, PT Petrokimia Gresik, PT Pupuk Kujang, PT Asean Aceh Fertilizer and PT Pupuk Iskandar Muda.

They all received ISO-9002 certificates, part of the ISO-9000 quality management series, while Pupuk Kalimantan also received an ISO-14001 certificate, part of the ISO-14000 environmental management series.

The certificates are accredited by Sucofindo Registrar for Quality Assurance, Bureau Veritas Quality International of London and SGS International Certification Services.

The companies were awarded their certificates at different times during the month.

The picture shows (from left to right) President of PT Pupuk Kaltim, Syaiful Amir, President of PT Petrokimia Gresik, Rauf Rahman Purnama, Minister of Trade and Industry Tunky Ariwibowo, President of PT Pupuk Kujang, Zaenal Soedjais, President of PT Asean Aceh Fertilizer, Edi Makna Wijaya, President of PT Pupuk Iskandar Muda, Omay K. Wiraatmadja.

Last year 127,000 companies worldwide had received the ISO- 9000 certificate, compared to only 27,000 in 1993.

The ISO-9000 certificate has been adopted as the Standard Nasional Indonesia (SNI) 19-9000 series. The first certification under the SNI 19-9000 series was in 1992. (pwn)