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SPV will increase its fiber production capacity by 80,000 tons per year

SPV will increase its fiber production capacity by 80,000 tons per year with the construction of line 5, which will operate by end of 2012. This addition capacity will increase SPV’s total production to 325,000 tons per year.

Further investment by the Lenzing Group to expand fiber production capacity at its Indonesian subsidiary PT. South Pacific Viscose

Due to the strong demand from the Indonesian textile industry for high-quality viscose fibers, the Lenzing Group, a world market leader in man-made cellulose fibers with its registered office in Austria, announced the immediate further expansion of its production capacity at PT. South Pacific Viscose (SPV), the company's main Asian production facility, located at Purwakarta, West Java.

Lenzing Expects Business to Remain Robust in Rest of 2010

Lenzing subsidiary PT. South Pacific Viscose (SPV) opens fourth production line

Lenzing's subsidiary PT. South Pacific Viscose (SPV) officially started up its fourth production line at the beginning of April. A total of USD 150 mill. made the production line the Group's biggest individual investment project in recent years. Its annual nominal production capacity of 60,000 tons of viscose fibers for textile and nonwovens applications raises SPV's total annual capacity to 220,000 tons and makes it Asia's biggest viscose fiber production site and the world's second-biggest producer, after the parent plant at Lenzing with 255,000 tons per year.

Austria to enhance economic and cultural links with RI

South Pacific Viscose - Orders Show Quantitative Recovery

PT. South Pacific Viscose reports that its order books are full, and its plant is producing viscose fiber at full capacity.

Lenzing’s Indonesian full subsidiary SPV celebrates its 25th anniversary

Lenzing’s full subsidiary, P.T. South Pacific Viscose (SPV), celebrates its 25th anniversary. The company is one of the largest producers of cellulose fibers world-wide and the second-largest production site of the Lenzing Group.

Textile and apparel exports likely to grow this year

The growth of Indonesia's textiles industry slowed in 2007 as a result of increasing production costs and declining demand. "The performance of [the] textile, leather and footwear industries dropped 3.4% in the third quarter of 2007," said economic observer Faisal Basri. "In 2006, these industries experienced on average growth of 1.2%."

Sixteen companies to invest

Benny Soetrisno, chairman of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), reports that at least 16 large and medium-sized textile and clothing companies will expand their garment business this year with a total investment worth IDR1.1trn (US$118.6m). It is hoped this downstream expansion strategy will help minimise the impact of illegal imports of clothing.

INDONESIA - Rising demand drives viscose plants expansion

Rising demand for viscose rayon staple fibre in Indonesia is driving local fibre manufacturers to increase production capacity. Indo Bharat Rayon (IBR) of India's Aditya Birla group and South Pacific Viscose (SPV), which belongs to the Austria-based Lenzing> group, are the only producers of viscose rayon staple fibre in Indonesia. Both have reportedly been operating at full capacity for the past several years, turning out an estimaed 326,875 tons of fibre in 2006 and selling the lion's share of it to local textile manufacturers.