Component plant to open

Component plant to open

JAKARTA (JP): PT Guna Elektro has set up a joint venture with
German company Trumpf GmbH & Co to build a 5 million deutschemark
(US$2.9 million) sheet metal components plant in Bekasi, West
Java.

The joint venture, Data Laserindo Metal, is equally owned by
Guna Elektro and Trumpf.

Guna Elektro business development director Tiwan Liutama said
yesterday the plant would be constructed on a 3,500-square-meter
plot in Cikarang industrial complex.

Commercial production is scheduled to start in October with a
designed capacity of between 800 tons and 1,000 tons of sheet
metal components yearly.

It will manufacture high precision sheet metal components for
furniture, electronics and automobiles. (jsk)