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R金沙js4399o Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka; President & CEO: Kiyoshi Otsubo) announces that P.T. Surya R金沙js4399o Containers (SRC), a related company that conducts business in Indonesia, has opened its new Karawang Factory. This new plant is SRC's fourth corrugated plant.

SRC is a joint venture company affiliated to R金沙js4399o and PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk. R金沙js4399o holds a 40% stake in SRC, which provides high-quality corrugated packaging to many important clients including Japanese and multinational corporations, as well as major local corporations.

Indonesia has the world's fourth-largest population after China, India, and the United States. It continues to experi金沙js4399ce remarkable economic growth as an emerging nation, c金沙js4399tering on domestic demand. Its GDP growth rate in 2012 is predicted to be 6.0%,* and robust demand for corrugated packaging is expected to continue in the future.

The Karawang Factory is located inside the Karawang International Industrial City (Karawang, West Java) on the outskirts of eastern Jakarta. Many foreign companies, including Japanese corporations, have entered this area. The Karawang Factory, with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons, is one of Indonesia's largest corrugated plants. As such, SRC's corrugated packaging supply system in the Jakarta region has been further str金沙js4399thened. Together with its three existing factories in Jakarta, Surabaya, and Semarang, SRC's total annual production capacity has been increased to 192,000 tons.

R金沙js4399o, as a “General Packaging Industry” (GPI), positions its overseas operations at the core of its overall business. It is working to str金沙js4399then its packaging business in Southeast Asia and China, and has also constructed optimum, seamless packaging supply systems in various areas inside and outside Japan. Since R金沙js4399o entered Indonesia in 1992, it has considered the country, a principal member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an important strategic base.

R金沙js4399o's corrugated packaging manufacturing bases in Southeast Asia currently span Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. Going forward, R金沙js4399o will continue working to further enhance its corrugated packaging business, and to sustain growth that hinges on economic development in the ASEAN region.

* GDP growth rate prediction released by the 金沙js4399ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) 金沙js4399 October 2012