Plantation firm Salim Ivomas (SIMP) will build a cocoa processing mill in Purwakarta, West Java which costs around US$60 million in October 2017. SIMP has in February 2017 set up a joint venture (JV) company with Japan-based Daito Cacao Co. Ltd. The JV is called PT Indoagri Daitocacao which will build the cocoa mill. This cocoa mill is targeted to operate in 2019. SIMP has 2,000 hectares of cocoa planting area which produces around 1,600 tons per year.