United Tractors' sales surge

JAKARTA (JP): Publicly listed heavy machinery company PT United Tractors announced on Friday net sales of Rp 3.79 trillion ($US421 million) during the first nine months of the year, or 32 percent higher than during the same period last year.

"The increase is quite significant as net sales for all of 1999 totaled Rp 3.83 trillion, or only 1 percent higher than net sales in the third quarter of 2000," the company said in a statement.

The biggest contribution came from the company's construction machinery division, which recorded sales of Rp 1.8 trillion or 51 percent higher than a year before, it said.

The division sold 623 units of Komatsu equipment during the period between January and September compared to only 488 units a year before, the company said.

Other divisions that contributed to much of the company's higher sales figure include the mining contractors division which contributed Rp 1.55 trillion or up 12 percent from 1999, and the coal mining division with sales totaling Rp 441 billion or 46 percent higher than the third quarter of 1999, the company said.

The company said between January and September it recorded a net income of Rp 86.99 billion ($9.6 million). (tnt)