Mitra Stania Prima Supports Gradual Tin Downstream

PT Mitra Stania Prima (MSP), one of the tin companies included in the Asosiasi Eksportir Timah Indonesia (AETI) support AETI's stance expressing its support for the sequential hilization of tin.

Interagency Director of PT MSP, Harwendro Adityo Dewanto said, the government should take several steps to tin producers so that hilization is realized as planned. PT MSP is one of the subsidiaries of Arsari Tambang located in the Bangka Belitung Islands Province.

"We held that the government needs to provide an affordable period of time to pure tin ingots (tin ingots), so that the hilization transition can run well, so as to minimize the "threats" that will occur," said the man who is familiarly called Didit in Jakarta, Monday (7/11/2022).

"For this reason, a study of hilization profitability is needed, considering that domestic tin consumption is still small and a number of downstream products also have an expiration date, such as Tin Paste and Tin Chemical," he added.

Didit hopes that tin ingot export activities can still run in accordance with applicable government regulations until the formation of a domestic demand market that can accommodate national production.

"We also hope that in the future the government can also formulate policies that can encourage mineral hilization strategies, through providing incentives to business actors, both in the form of fiscal, financial, infrastructure, and others," he hoped.

Moreover, Didit said, imports of soldering and other tin products should be stopped when hilization is carried out to maximize domestic tin absorption.

According to him, if you want to hilization tin, tin chemical has a considerable potential for state revenue in the future. Therefore, Didit said, the government should make regulations that support the process and to run by domestic companies.

"If it provides added value to the country, maybe we can develop tin chemical in the future. Then if it is run, it means that if we want to go downstream, of course we will be given the investment facilities, land infrastructure, tax holidays, easy funding and others." he explained.

Tin chemical is a tin metal derivative product mixed with chemicals for the production of plastics, PVC, etc.