Tosummit start making color picture tubes

Tosummit start making color picture tubes

JAKARTA (JP): PT Tosummit Electronics Devices Indonesia, a
Japanese joint venture company, started producing color picture
tubes at the firm's plant in Bekasi, West Java.

"The company will operate at its full capacity of 2.3 million
units of color picture tubes in August," the firm said in a
statement.

It said the 14 inch and 20 inch color picture tubes are the
first television tubes manufactured in Indonesia by Tosummit
Electronics Devices Indonesia. The company will employ 1,100
workers when its plant is running at full capacity.

The company's president, Hirofumi Kakiuchi, said the surplus
tubes will be sold domestically.

PT Toshiba Consumer Products, located adjacent to the Tosummit
Electronics Devices plant, will start making Toshiba television
sets next month. The tubes will be supplied by Tosummit.

Tosummit Electronics Devices Indonesia, set up last December
with a capital of US$40 million, is 65 percent owned by three
Japanese corporations -- Toshiba Corporation, Sumitomo
Corporation and Orion Electric Co, Ltd. The remaining 35 percent
is owned by PT Tabung Gambar Indonesia, PT Hartono Istana
Electronics, PT Panggung Electronics Industries and PT
Topjaya. (kod)