Jakarta (Antara Bali) - Publicly traded steel maker  PT Krakatau Steel Tbk (KRAS) has secured a syndicated loan of Rp1.899 trillion (US$200 million) from a number of Chinese banks.

The banks include  China Development Bank Corporation (CBD), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBD), and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), Irvan K. Hakim, the president of the state company said in a statement published here Friday, adding that the loan was signed on 15 August 2012.

"The loan is part of the fund needed to build a blast furnace complex with  a production capacity of 1.2 million  tons a year," Irvan said here on Friday.

He said the contractor to build the factory is a consortium of MCC-Capital Engineering & Research Indorporation Limited (MCC-CERI), MCC-ACRE  and  PT Krakatau Engineering.

"The syndicated loan to be repayable in in eight years include US$80 million from  CBD,  US$80 million from ICBC  and US$40 million from  HSBC," he said.(DWA)

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