ICI sets up plant here

ICI sets up plant here

JAKARTA (JP): The Britain-based surfactants manufacturer ICI will build a 6.5-million pound (US$9.7 million) production facility in Indonesia to serve the rapidly expanding market in Indonesia.

PT ICI Indonesia, an affiliate of ICI, said here yesterday that the planned facility is scheduled to come on stream in the first quarter of 1996.

But the schedule will depend on approval from the appropriate Indonesian planning authorities, it said.

The planned plant, to be located in Cikarang east of here, will be 60 percent controlled by ICI and the remainder by PT Galic Bina Mada and PT Perdoni, ICI's sales agents in Indonesia for the past twenty years.

Surfactants are auxiliary chemical products used in many applications in the textile, pulp paper, agro chemicals and other industries.(icn)