Bosowa to start operation

Bosowa to start operation

UJUNGPANDANG (JP): PT Bosowa Maros will start operating in
December its cement factory in Maros, South Sulawesi, an
executive said.

Bosowa Group's president, Muhammad Aksa Mahmud, said last week
in Ujungpandang, South Sulawesi, that the construction of the
factory was 90 percent completed.

"The construction of the whole factory complex will be
finished by next July," he said.

Mahmud said that the establishment of the factory needed an
investment of Rp 600 billion (US$246.6 million) and that his
company had assigned Daewoo Corporation of South Korea to
construct the factory on a 60-hectare area under a turn-key
contract worth $208.8 million.

The plant, with an annual capacity of 1.8 million tons, would
operate with a dust particle emission of 50 mg/N m3, far lower
than the maximum level of 80 mg/N m3 allowed by the government,
he said.

Mahmud said earlier that 60 percent of the factory's output
would be sold domestically, especially in eastern provinces, and
the remainder exported. (37/13)