Schneider integrates plants to boost output
ELECTRIC controls and equipment manufacturer Schneider Indonesia has integrated its factory in Cibitung, Bekasi, in West Java and a plant in Pulogadung, Jakarta, into its industrial compound in Cikarang, Bekasi. The move is aimed at improving 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 annually produce about 30,000 panels, 30 per cent more than its previous capacity.
He said that 62 per cent of production at Cikarang would be sold domestically and the remainder exported to Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
Schneider is based in France.
Joko said after the inauguration ceremony of the integrated plant that 38 per cent of the materials would be procured domestically and the remainder imported. In terms of the number of suppliers, 68 per cent of them were local partners, while all the workers were from the region, 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 by 2019.
With the merging of the three factories, Schneider Indonesia has five factories in Indonesia.
This includes one in Cibitung, which focuses on producing transformer tools, and three others in Batam, on the Riau Islands, which make components for panels.
