PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Persero) partner with PT Antam Tbk (SOE) build a Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR) in West Kalimantan. The goal is to increase the added value of bauxite products to alumina (huge investment).The SGAR project construction consists of two stages with a total production capacity of two million tons of alumina. For phase one with a capacity of 1 million tons of SGA, the ground breaking is planned for the beginning of 2019.SGAR Project is National Strategic Project which connects the interrupted supply chain between Bauxite Mine (IUP Antam) and Aluminium Smelter Plant (INALUM)Through PT Borneo Alumina Indonesia (PT BAI), the two companies will work together to build a refining plant to process bauxite into alumina, which is the main raw material for making aluminum ingots. INALUM itself is the only aluminum ingot producer in Indonesia, and will later absorb most of the alumina from PT BAI.