EV Industry Update

The Vietnamese EV manufacturer VinFast has officially inaugurated its manufacturing plant in Subang, West Java province with an initial production capacity of 50,000 units per annum, following its Indian factory’s inaugurated last August. The company said that the...

Bosai Minerals in Surabaya

China’s Bosai Minerals Group, which generated US$8.6 billion of sales revenues last year, and PT Surabaya Industrial Estate Rungkut (SIER) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the preparation of industrial land use. This collaboration marks the...

Walk the Talk: Downstream of Coconut

The Ministry of Investment and downstreaming has recently revealed that China’s Zhejiang FreeNow Food Co. Ltd., a coconut derivative producer, has begun construction of coconut processing plant in Morowali, Central Sulawesi province with US$100 million of investment....

Steel industry update

Minister of finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa promised to take action on the flood of imported steel construction that hurting domestic fabricators. Purbaya didn’t specify, but responded positively complaints from local players. One company claimed of downsizing its...

The mysterious petrochemical player

PT Lintas Citra Pratama (LCP), a petrochemical investment company based in Cilegon, continues to strengthen its position in the downstream industry by carrying out a major expansion through the construction of a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plant with a capacity...

Prabowo’s national car: Pindad?

President Prabowo Subianto has mandated PT Pindad, a state defense contractor, to develop the national car (Mobil nasional/Mobnas, minister of industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said this week.  Agus claims that he has been informed by minister of state secretary...

Cable manufacturers, so far

Cable is key component of the digital economy because of growing need to reliable power supply and Internet. Yet, cable manufacturers gained very little, at least shown by low gross profit margin of cable manufacturers. Financial report of four cable manufacturers...

New cracker, finally

After years of talk and talk, South Korean Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Berhad has launched commercial operations at its Lotte Chemical Indonesia New Ethylene (LINE) project, an integrated petrochemical facility developed through its subsidiary, PT Lotte Chemical...

Persistent oversupply hurts ESSA Industries

PT ESSA Industries Indonesia Tbk, which generates most sales revenues from ammonia, suffered from squeezed margins from persistent oversupply in the chemical. In the first nine months of 2025, the company’s net profit dropped by 36.6% to US$21.3 million. ESSA’s sales...
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