1. Outline of ICA
(1) Company name: PT. INDONESIA CHEMICAL ALUMINA
(2) Locations: Head office: Jakarta, Indonesia; Plant: Tayan District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
(3) Representative: President, Anas Safriatna
(4) Capital: US$188,500 thousand
(5) Shareholders: PT ANTAM Tbk (80%); Showa Denko K.K. (20%)
(6) Establishment: February 2007
(7) Products: Alumina and aluminum hydroxide
2. About the sale of SDK's entire shareholding ICA to ANTAM
(1) Transfer price: Memorandum price
(2) Date of resolution at the board of directors meeting: May 29, 2018
(3) Date of conclusion of share transfer agreement: May 29, 2018
(4) Date of execution of share transfer: August 31, 2018 (planned)
3. Impact on SDK's 2018 financial results
The ICA plant has temporarily stopped operation. Though it is agreed that the two shareholders of ICA will bear any costs in restarting the plant in accordance with the ratio of each company's interest, the influence of the restart cost on SDK's 2018 full-year consolidated financial results is expected to be insignificant.
With regard to ICA, SDK already recorded about 10.0 billion yen as loss on investment to companies under the application of equity method and about 6.7 billion yen as extraordinary losses concerning SDK's suretyship obligation and loans to ICA in SDK's financial results for the first half of 2017.
Reference:
Forecast of 2018 consolidated financial results (announced on May 9, 2018) and actual consolidated financial results for 2017
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(Unit: Millions of yen) Net sales Operating Ordinary Net income
income income attributable
to owners of
the parent
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Forecast of 2018 consolidated financial results
(Jan. - Dec. 2018) 935,000 137,000 131,500 85,000
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Actual consolidated financial results for 2017
(Jan. - Dec. 2017) 780,387 77,818 63,962 33,470
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About Showa Denko K.K.
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004, ADR:SHWDY), a major manufacturer of chemical products, serves a wide range of fields from heavy industry to electronics and computer industries. The Petrochemicals Sector provides cracker products such as ethylene and propylene, the Chemicals Sector provides industrial, high-performance and high-purity gases and chemicals for semicon and other industries, and the Inorganics Sector provides ceramic products, such as alumina, abrasives, refractory and graphite electrodes and fine carbon products. The Aluminum Sector provides aluminum materials and high-value-added fabricated aluminum, the Electronics Sector provides HD media, compound semiconductors such as ultra high-bright LEDs and rare earth magnetic alloys, and the Advanced Battery Materials Department (ABM) provides lithium-ion battery components. For more information, please visit www.sdk.co.jp/english/.
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