Consistency In Maintaining Quality And Mutu Semen, SIG Wins Gold Ranking For The 2024 SNI Award

Ajeng Dwi Utami, Department of Management System & Business Process Excellence SIG (left six) along with representatives of the company receiving the 2024 SNI Award. (Photo: Doc. SIG)

JAKARTA - Commitment in maintaining product quality and quality to achieve superior and sustainable performance, bringing PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (SIG) to win the Golden Rank at the SNI Award 2024 at the 19th National Quality Award of Indonesia organized by the National Standardization Agency (BSN) at the Jakarta Convention Center, on Thursday, November 21. At the same event, a subsidiary of SIG, PT Semen Baturaja Tbk won the Silver Award of the SNI Award 2024.

The SNI Award is a form of government appreciation for the consistency of the implementation of SNI by business actors and organizations, which are able to achieve superior and sustainable performance. The 2024 SNI Award was attended by 251 organizations from various sectors, of which 69 organizations were declared worthy of awards. The assessment is based on the contribution of organizations in standardization and assessment of suitability, as well as aspects of sustainability, digitalization, circular economy, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance).

SIG Operations Director, Reni Wulandari said, GIS is proud to be able to win the gold ranking again at the SNI Award 2024. This award proves that building materials produced by GIS have obtained quality and quality guarantees, as well as product safety in the form of SNI certificates.

"The 2024 SNI Award is an appreciation for SIG's commitment and consistency in implementing SNI to realize an effective and efficient operating system, and upholding sustainability aspects. We would like to thank the Ministry of SOEs for its direction and support so that state-owned companies continue to improve competitiveness in their respective industries. Therefore, we are carrying out this continuous operating pattern, as part of efforts to produce innovative building materials of quality, quality, safety for customers and more environmentally friendly," said Reni Wulandari, in her statement, Thursday, November 28.

Reni Wulandari added, GIS integrates sustainability aspects in the Company's overall operational activities. One of them is realized in production activities that apply circular economic principles through the use of alternative fuels from agricultural and industrial waste, urban waste (municipal solid waste) which is processed into refuse-derived fuel (RDF), biomass, and other sources, to create sustainable production operations.

GIS also implements Industry-based 4.0 technology in production activities to increase productivity, use of energy that is effective and efficient, and supports the Company's efforts to reduce emissions. More than that, digitization also helps SIG ensure that the aspects of work safety and health (K3) to quality management are always maintained.

"SIG products have not only been certified by SNI but also contain domestic components (TKDN) which are higher than 90 percent, or higher than those stipulated in the Minister of PUPR Regulation Number 21 of 2021 at least 40 percent. In fact, GIS environmentally friendly cement products are lower in carbon emissions by up to 38 percent of conventional cement. With all the advantages they have, GIS products have competitiveness at the national and even global levels," said Reni Wulandari.