Indonesia: PT Indocement Tunggal Prakasa has reported that it will build a US$500m cement factory with a production capacity of 3Mt/yr in the regency of Pati, Central Java.
Sahat Pangabean, Indocement's corporate secretary, said that the company was hoping that the process of licensing the plant would be completed within 2012 and that construction would start immediately afterwards. Sahat added that the company was currently in the process of conducting an analysis of the plant's potential environmental impact.
The project will be run by Indocement's subsidiary PT Sahabat Mulia Sakti and is expected to be operational in 2015.
