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)