Posted on 17 Mar 2016
The company would spend $387 million in the capital expenditure, up from $227 million spent last year, said Krakatau Steel's finance director Anggisari Hindratmo on Tuesday (15/03).
The hot strip mill will be built on a 48 hectares area in the company's industrial complex Krakatau Industrial Estate Cilegon. The mill, which reheats steel slab and rolls it into hot rolled coil has a capacity to produce 1.5 million metric tons of thin steel coil a year.
Anggisari said Krakatau Steel will use the $260 million loan from Germany's Commerzbank and the remaining proceeds from its initial public offering in 2010 to finance the expansion.
A consortium of Germany's SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft and the company's unit Krakatau Engineering would work on design, procurement, construction of the mill.
