Mining firm Berau Coal said Thursday it had set its 2010 coal target at 17 million tons, a 13 percent increase on this year’s production.

“This increase was triggered by the increasing demand and new customers,” Berau Coal president director, Bob Kamandanu, said to Tempointeraktif.com

He said one customer, a coal-fired power plant in India, would begin operations soon and demand coal while two buyers from China had ordered 700,000 tons of coal for the next eight months.

The company, established in 1983, had expected to produce 15 million tons of coal and sell 14.2 million tons.

The mining site is located in Berau, East Kalimantan.