Barito's wood-chip plant

Barito's wood-chip plant

JAKARTA (JP): Prajogo Pangestu, a conglomerate who controls
the forest-based Barito group, plans to build a wood chip plant
on Sungsang island in South Sumatra to process 1.5 million cubic
meters of raw wood to be harvested from its 126,000 hectare
concession in the province.

Agusnang, the president of PT Musi Hutan Persada, the
subsidiary of Barito group in S. Sumatra, said in Palembang that
the island would be the ideal location for the plant project
because it could berth large ships.

The Antara news agency reported that the company had surveyed
1,000 hectares of land on the island which would be used for
development of the factory. The plant is projected to start up
production in 1996. (yns)