RI to get new battery plant<\/p>\n
TOKYO (AFP): Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.,
\nits subsidiary Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. and an
\nIndonesian partner will build one of the world's largest dry
\nbattery plants in Indonesia, a spokesman says.<\/p>\n
Total investment in the plant, part of the Japanese companies'
\njoint venture with Indonesia's PT Paditraktoris, is estimated at
\nmore than four billion yen ($40 million ), a Matsushita Battery
\nspokesman said.<\/p>\n
The plant is to be completed by next May, with full-scale
\nproduction slated for the middle of 1997, the spokesman added.
\nIts annual output will be one billion batteries.<\/p>\n
The plant will be built on a 100,000 square meter (1,076,000
\nsquare foot) site in an industrial park in Cibitung, Bekasi, east
\nof Jakarta, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
It will be constructed by PT Matsushita Gobel Battery
\nIndustry, owned 30 percent each by Matsushita Battery and
\nPaditraktor and 25 percent by Japan's largest consumer
\nelectronics maker Matsushita Electric, he said.<\/p>\n
The joint venture currently produces about 400 million
\nmanganese dry batteries a year, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
About 70 percent of the products to be made at the new plant
\nwill be exported to Asian and Middle Eastern countries and the
\nUnited States, he added.<\/p>",
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