Joint venture to build semiconductor plant here<\/p>\n
BEKASI, West Java (JP): PT NEC Humpuss Semiconductors
\nIndonesia, a Japanese joint venture, broke ground here yesterday
\nfor a US$45-million plant which will manufacture semiconductors.<\/p>\n
"The 8,000-square-meter plant will be built on a 100,000-
\nsquare-meter area and the construction will be completed in
\nOctober this year," the company's president, Masaru Nakagiri,
\nsaid at the ground-breaking ceremony.<\/p>\n
The joint venture, established in September with an investment
\nof US$15.4 million, is 65 percent owned by NEC Corporation of
\nJapan, 25 percent by PT Humpuss Elektronika and 10 percent by
\nSumitomo Corporation of Japan.<\/p>\n
Nakagiri said that manufacturing operations will begin in
\nJanuary 1997 with a monthly output of 15 million linear
\nintegrated circuits (ICs) and 100 million signal transistors, all
\nof which are basic materials for the production of personal
\ncomputers, television sets, video cassette recorders and other
\nelectronic equipment.<\/p>\n
"We have an ambitious five-year plan to eventually employ 600
\npeople and have annual sales of $40 million," he said.<\/p>\n
NEC Corporation's senior vice president, Yuichi Haneta, told
\nThe Jakarta Post after the ceremony that all products of the
\njoint venture will be exported to Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan.<\/p>\n
"We plan to market ICs and transistors on the Indonesian
\nmarket only in 1998 or 1999, when demand is feasible," Haneta
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
He added that the global semiconductor market showed growth of
\n40 percent last year to over $150 billion.<\/p>\n
The president of Humpuss Elektronika, Agus P. Soeroso, said
\nthat his company decided to get involved in the joint venture
\nafter the Japanese partners confirmed the exportation of all of
\nits planned output.<\/p>\n
NEC Humpuss Semiconductors is the third semiconductor company
\nin the country after PT Astra Microtronics Technology and the
\nSharp Corporation.<\/p>\n
Astra Microtronics, operating in Batam, Riau, is a joint
\nventure established in 1990 by PT Astra Graphia and two
\nSingaporean firms. Astra Microtronics produces 236 million ICs
\nper year, whose export earns Astra some $42 million per annum.<\/p>\n
Sharp Corporation operates its plant in Karawang, West Java,
\nwhere it produces 20 million semiconductors, including ICs, per
\nmonth.<\/p>\n
All the materials and components for the production of
\nsemiconductors by NEC Humpuss Semiconductors, Astra Microtronics
\nand Sharp are imported from Japan. (kod)<\/p>",
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