Rubber Gloves Manufacture, from 40 Factories Now Only 5 Factories Left, Terrible!

By : Ridwan And Aldi Firhand. A | Wednesday, February 21 2018 - 20:50 IWST

Illustration Worker Factory Rubber Glove (Ist)
Illustration Worker Factory Rubber Glove (Ist)

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta, The issues of closing the factory is still a hot conversation among the industry players. The price of gas that never fell to trigger the lid of several factories in Indonesia.

"In the last three years at least there are 10 industries that are closed because it can not cover the expenses enough swell," said Chairman of the Forum of Natural Gas Industry (FIPGB), Achmad Safiun when met INDUSTRY.co.id at Hotel Sari Pan Pacific, Jakarta, Wednesday (21/2/2018).

According to Safiun, the industry most affected by the high price of natural gas is the industry of rubber and plastic gloves. Because the two industries are the largest gas consumption.

"Until now, there are 5 rubber taro factories, one on Java and four in Sumatera, from 40 factories, the remaining 5 factories at this time, quite horrible to hear," Safiun explained.

Furthermore, Safiun said, with gas prices are still skyrocketing at this time how we want to seize the world market ?.

"The world market share for Malaysian rubber gloves is already 70 percent, while Indonesia is still 5 percent, if we can still take the world market share," said Safiun.

According to him, his side had many times talk about natural gas, starting from the era of SBY administration until now still have not encountered a bright spot.

He said that Malaysia is only US $ 4.6 per MMBtu, while in Indonesia at the beginning of last year it only decreased to US $ 9.95 per MMBtu from US $ 12.5 per MMBtu.

"With this condition, it is clear the domestic glove industry is less competitive with Malaysia," he said.

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