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PT Freeport Indonesia is one of the industries that will build its factory in JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate. The plant being built is a smelter or concentrate processing plant which will operate around December 2023. PT Freeport Indonesia's factory in the JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate will later process 2 to 3 million concentrates supplied from Mimika Regency, Papua with PT FI's smelter production capacity in the JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate reaching 550,000 tons of cathode.
One of the reasons this smelter plant was built in the JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate is because Indonesia is a large market where many manufacturing industries are in great need of copper as raw material such as the automotive industry, air conditioner plant, electrical installation construction, to the development of electric cars that will require much .
JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate is the right place for the construction of a smelter factory because by choosing this location all smelter products can be marketed easily and will not damage the surrounding environment. The JIIPE Gresik Indiustri Zone also has its own port which will facilitate Smelter exports.
The construction of the Smelter Factory in the JIIPE Gresik Industrial Estate will be able to meet the needs of copper, gypsum, sulfuric acid, and anode sludge concentrates in several industries.