Press Metal’s associate firm to double capacity

Two million tonnes of alumina a year in the pipeline. (File pic: Samuljadi plant)

KUCHING: Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd’s 25%-owned associate PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia (PTBAI) will double the production capacity of alumina to two million tonnes per annum when its phase two facility is due for completion in fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22).

The phase two project is under construction after PTBAI commissioned its first phase alumina refinery in Pulau Bintan, Indonesia last year, according to group chief executive officer Tan Sri Paul Koon Poh Keong.