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PT. Schneider Indonesia, Cibitung Manufacturing. (Courtesy of/panoramio.com)
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rench-based electric controls and equipment manufacturer Schneider Indonesia has integrated its Cibitung, Bekasi factory in West Java and Pulogadung plant in Jakarta into its industrial compound in Cikarang, Bekasi, to improve its capacity to produce low and medium voltage electric equipment.
Schneider Indonesia’s Cikarang plant director, Joko Sutopo, said on Wednesday that the integrated plant could now annually produce about 30,000 panels, 30 percent more than its previous capacity.
He said that 62 percent of Cikarang production would be sold domestically and the other 38 percent exported to Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
(Read also: Schneider Electric to build new plant)
Joko told reporters after the inauguration ceremony of the integrated plant that 38 percent of the materials would be procured domestically and the remainder imported.
In terms of the number of suppliers, 68 percent of them were local partners, while all the workers were local people, he added.
The Industry Ministry’s director for machinery and farming tool industries, Zakiyudin, said the new plant would support the country’s project of increasing its electricity capacity by 35,000 megawatts as of 2019.
With the merging of the three factories, Schneider Indonesia has five factories in Indonesia including one in Cibitung, which specifically focuses on producing transformer tools, and three others in Batam, Riau Islands, which focus on making components for panels. (yon/bbn)
