CEMENT NEEDS IN EASTERN INDONESIA

A worker organizes cement sak over the truck, in the Packer Unit (hardening) of Tonasa Cement plant, in Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi, Thursday (2/10). Facing the ASEAN Economic Society (MEA) 2015, PT Semen Tonasa this year conducts an increase in capacity to 6,7 million tons and the next year by 7 million tons, although factory design capacity is 5,98 million tons per year, in order to compete with cement manufacturers from overseas and master 45 percent of cement markets in Eastern Indonesia covering Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Bali and Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua. ANTARA PHOTO/Eric Ireng/Asf/pd/14.