Indonesian aluminium smelter envisaged
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright? TOKYO, March 21. The two Japanese partners in the Bluff aluminium smelter project will present plans to the Indonesian Government this week for the production of aluminium in Indonesia, the Jiji Press, Tokyo, has reported. The report said the two companies, Showa Denko and Sumitomo Chemical, Ltd, have joined with the Nippon Light Metal Company in deciding to launch a joint project in Indonesia. On Tuesday the companies will submit detailed plans for their project, which envisages
aluminium produced from bauxite processed on Bintan Island, Indonesia, using cheap electricity from the harnessing of the Asahan River in Sumatra—a project which is now being studied by the Indonesian Government The projected smelter, which will cost about SUSIB9m, is expected to produce 200,000 tons of primary aluminium annually, from 1977. The report says that as the Kaiser corporation of the United States has approached the Indonesian Government with a similar project, a joint Japanese-American project might result
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32561, 22 March 1971, Page 15
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