Flour mill constructed

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)