Flour mill constructed

SEMARANG, Central Java (JP): PT Indorama Nusantara has started the construction of a Rp 90 billion wheat flour mill at Tanjung Emas port.

"We are building a 12-story factory, equipped with a warehouse and a cargo port," the company's president, Harli Saleh, said here yesterday after signing the agreement between the company and PT Pelindo III on the operation of the multipurpose cargo port.

Occupying a 2.6-hectare plot of land, the factory will have a processing capacity of 540,000 tons of wheat per annum to produce 363,600 tons of flour, said Harli.

The warehouse will be capable of storing 47,000 tons of flour.

For the construction of the port, the company will dredge soil to a depth of 100 meters at a cost of Rp 2.7 billion (US$1.1 million).

"This port may be used by the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) and any other flour companies," he said.

Harli said the construction of the facilities is scheduled to be completed by February 1997 and the production will start the following month. (har/jsk)