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Press contactPhone: +49 7143 271-709E-Mail: [email protected]
Press information | 18.03.2015 | 2195-EN
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Creative High Performance Yarns for a Wide Variety of Products
PT. Idaman Eramandiri is OEKO-TEX® Company of the Month for March 2015
Zurich (hm) The core business of the company PT. Idaman Eramandiri, founded in 1990 and locatedin West Java in Indonesia, is the manufacturing of high quality and efficient yarns. As an integratedmanufacturer, whose production steps range from twisting to dyeing, bonding, finishing, spoolingand packaging, the business supplies not only numerous Indonesian customers but also renownedbrand suppliers in the United States, Europe, and Japan. The trademark of Idaman Eramandiriis the highest level of customer satisfaction based on long term, reliable supply relationships,creative services and innovative product characteristics. In addition, the company has a high levelof corporate responsibility in relation to the environment and its 217 highly qualified employees.Since 2007, the entire range of products provided by the company has fulfilled the requirementsfor human-ecological safe textiles in accordance with OEKO-TEX® Standard 100. In December2014, PT. Idaman Eramandiri was also the first textile company in Indonesia awarded with STePcertification for environmentally friendly and socially responsible production facilities.
True to the maxim "Your satisfaction is our priority", Idaman manufactures a broad range of yarnand embroidery thread out of polyester, viscose and polyamide (nylon) in its just over 5600 squaremeter large facility in Bandung. The annual output is around 1.2 million kilograms. The dyed andfinished yarns are used, for example, in the automotive, footwear, and clothing industry as well asduring the manufacturing of bags, gloves or camping equipment and the production of mattressesand upholstery. Due to the exclusive use of high quality raw materials, dyes and other materialsas well as a quality management implemented for many years in accordance with ISO 9001,Idaman Eramandiri is able to offer a constantly high level of testing, even for specialist customerspecifications. The company further distinguishes itself through high efficiency with low levelsproduction waste.
Furthermore, another core feature of Idaman Eramandiri's company philosophy is its convictionto ideally compete internationally through sustainable economics. "As only limited resources areavailable globally, where possible our main goal is aimed at long term added value." explainsManaging Director Hendra Indrawirawan. "For us sustainability means that we build as close apartnership as possible with our suppliers and customers, which is based on ethical principles andbusiness practices. To be able to implement this on a day to day basis, we need well educatedemployees that completely identify with our company and have a good working environment.Furthermore, efficient technologies and manufacturing procedures, which not only ensure highproduction capacity but also help to make our environmental impact as low as possible, areimperative.”
In order to on the one hand communicate and on the other hand to constantly improve on whatthe company has already achieved in environmental protection, occupational health and safetyand health protection, PT. Idaman Eramandiri has successfully been independently certified
Press contactPhone: +49 7143 271-709E-Mail: [email protected]
Press information | 18.03.2015 | 2195-EN
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according to ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. "The comprehensive approach of STeP by OEKO-TEX® is what made us still want to be certified according to this additional tool" says HendraIndrawirawan. "With SteP we can analyse and manage all relevant company areas with only onecertification." The implementation of the criteria required by STeP at PT. Idaman Eramandiri hasbeen certified as exemplary by OEKO-TEX® auditors at the Swiss Textile Testing Institute TESTEXAG. The Indonesian company received, for example, an especially good scoring in the "ChemicalsManagement" module not merely thanks to modern harmful substances monitoring. By recyclingwaste water, the company also drastically reduced fresh water consumption and in the future willuse natural gas (CNG) instead of coal to generate energy. Regular health checks for employeesand strict compliance with all necessary measures for occupational health and safety support the noaccident strategy of the company management as well. In their own words, PT Idaman Eramandirican communicate its sustainable business model in the best way to its customers through STePcertification and profits as their processes are improved, for example by reducing costs for primaryenergy resources, fresh water, raw materials and waste disposal.
Contact:
PT. Idaman EramandiriHead Office & FactoryJalan Cisirung no 97Bandung – 40238Indonesia
Tel: +62 22 5205142Fax: +62 22 5205144E-Mail: [email protected]: www.iem.co.id
Since its foundation in 1990, the Indonesiancompany PT. Idaman Eramandiri has growninto a cutting edge and successful business thatmanufactures high performance yarns for thedomestic market and for customers in Europe, theUnited States and Japan. Picture: © PT IdamanEramandiri
Press contactPhone: +49 7143 271-709E-Mail: [email protected]
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In December 2014, PT. Idaman Eramandiri wasthe first textile company in Indonesia and SouthEast Asia to be certified by the Swiss TextileTesting Institute TESTEX AG in accordancewith the STeP by OEKO-TEX® criteria. Thecompany received the certificate as a result of itsenvironmentally friendly processes and sociallyresponsible working conditions. Picture: © PTIdaman Eramandiri
The yarn and embroidery thread of PT. IdamanEramandiri is used in the most varied areas suchas the automotive, footwear and clothing industryand during the manufacture of bags, glovesor camping equipment. Picture: © PT IdamanEramandiri
The production steps at PT. Idaman Eramandirirange from twisting yarns to dying, drying,bonding and then spooling and packaging thegoods. Regarding quality management, thecompany pursues a no error strategy with as lowlevels of production waste as possible. Picture: ©PT Idaman Eramandiri
Press contactPhone: +49 7143 271-709E-Mail: [email protected]
Press information | 18.03.2015 | 2195-EN
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