OroAmerica, Inc announced that it has started building a 26000 square foot cigar manufacturing facility in Indonesia to support its recently announced entry into the premium cigar business

The Indonesian facility will be used to process and reclassify tobacco leaf; the company expects to start manufacturing cigars there during the second half of 1997.
The new plant joins another manufacturing facility which the company has leased in the Dominican Republic, where premium cigar production is expected to begin in 1997. OroAmerica has also reportedly doubled its inventory of wrapper tobacco to an amount sufficient to produce up to 24 million cigars.