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Semen Indonesia

25 January 2018, Published under Cement News

Semen Indonesia has recorded a 10.2 per cent YoY increase in sales volumes to 15.34Mt in 2017, compared to 13.92Mt the previous year, according to data from the Indonesian Cement Association. December alone saw volumes jump 13.5 per cent to 1.31Mt, versus 1.16Mt in December 2016. Total domestic sales volumes for the company, including Semen Padang and Semen Tonasa, came in at 27.1Mt in 2017, 5.5 per cent up on the 25.68Mt reported in the previous year. Exports also grew with Semen Padang ...

Indonesia: PT Semen Indonesia looks to alternative fuels to save jobs

17 October 2016, Published under Cement News

Cost-saving measures other than staff layoffs are considered more efficient in improving company margins as they are challenged by weak demand, according to corporations and consulting firms quoted in The Jakarta Post. "Our energy-related costs hovered around 60 per cent of overall costs so we prioritised making them more efficient," said Agung Wiharto, corporate secretary of state-owned Semen Indonesia, highlighting energy as the focus of the company’s cost-saving measures. Semen ...

Indonesian consumption contracts in April

12 May 2015, Published under Cement News

Following a disappointing performance over the first three months of this year, there's still no recovery in sight for Indonesian cement consumption as latest figures show demand contracted again in April. After registering a 3.2 per cent drop YoY in 1Q15, last month demand was down by 1.1 per cent to 4.47Mt. However, the pace of decline eased from the 6.2 and 6.4 per cent reductions recorded in February and March 2015, respectively. Year-to-date update For the first four months of 2...

Semen Indonesia set to acquire land for new Papua plant

13 October 2014, Published under Cement News

PT Semen Indonesia will soon acquire 500ha of land in West Papua for the construction of a cement plant at a cost of around US$150m. Semen Indonesia corporate secretary Agung Wiharto told the Jakarta Post that the firm would sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) later this year to procure the land for the first cement factory in the province. "For a capacity of around 1Mta, we might need around 500ha," Agung said. Construction of the new plant is expected to begin in 2015. The new plant...

Indonesian president inaugurates Tonasa V project

19 February 2014, Published under Cement News

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia has officially inaugurated Semen Tonasa’s Line V project and power plant in Pangkajene Island District, South Sulawesi. Semen Tonasa, which is part of Semen Indonesia group of companies, invested US$289m in this fifth line which has a capacity of 8000tpd. The project has added 2.5Mta of volumes to Tonasa’s cement portfolio, bringing its  total capacity to 7Mta. New equipment, supplied by some of Europe’s leading technology providers, spanned r...

Semen Tonasa begins construction of West Sulawesi packing plant

13 September 2013, Published under Cement News

State-owned Indonesian cement producer PT Semen Tonasa has begun construction of a new 300,000t capacity packing plant in the Belang Belang port area, Mamuju District, West Sulawesi. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony to launch construction of the IDR100bn project, Tonasa's president director, Unggul Attas, said the plant is being built in cooperation with PT Latanindo Graha Persana and is expected to be completed in a year. He said that demand for cement in West Sulawesi was high so that...

New capacity boosts Semen Tonasa sales

17 July 2013, Published under Cement News

PT Semen Tonasa reported a 137 per cent YoY rise in first-half sales to 2.78Mt compared to the same period of last year. Sales of the company, which is part of the Semen Indonesia group,  have increased in line with growing production output which has risen following the operation of Tonasa’s 2.5Mta Kiln Line 5. However, Tonasa’s President Director, Andi Unggul Attas, said sales in eastern Indonesia only grew by 8.3 per cent in the first six months of this year compared to 23.4 per cen...

Semen Tonasa announces eastern packing projects, Indonesia

08 March 2012, Published under Cement News

Indonesian cement producer, Semen Tonasa, a Semen Gresik subsidiary, is to construct cement packing plants in all provinces in eastern Indonesia. The company said it would need to spend up to IDR100bn (US$11m) on the project to be carried out in phases, according to reports in the Jakarta Post. Tonasa’s president, Sattar Taba, said the company will build at least two packing plants a year until each province in the eastern region has a packing plant. This year, it will start with the c...