PTPN palm oil plant operates in 2019

The factory, which is currently under construction, will be able to produce 600.000 tons of cooking oil per year. This factory is being built on 2.000 hectares of land owned by PTPN III Holding.

PTPN III Holding’s CEO, Dasuki Amsir, said that his party has prepared an investment of almost Rp 1 trillion to build the cooking oil factory. The budget comes from 30% internal funding and 70% loans from banks.

“Now it has entered the construction phase and is targeted to start operations at the end of 2018 or early 2019,” said Dasuki to KONTAN at his office on Wednesday (24/5).

Dasuki explained that the average need for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) used as raw material for cooking oil is 2.000 tons per day. The raw material supply comes from PTPN III and IV, respectively 1.000 tons.

During the processing, not all CPO will become cooking oil, only 75% can become cooking oil, while the other 25% will become oleochemicals.

Because Industri Nabati Lestari does not yet have the technology and experience to process these oleochemicals. Moreover, it requires a large investment to be able to process oleochemicals.

Therefore, currently, his party is choosing to collaborate with PT Unilever Oleochemical Indonesia (UOI) as the party that absorbs and processes the oleochemicals. "Incidentally, Unilever also has a factory in the Sei Mangkei area, so it's more convenient and efficient," he added.

According to Basuki, in the future, his party will produce bulk cooking oil and packaged cooking oil. Bulk cooking oil will be distributed to the market using containers.

Meanwhile, packaged cooking oil will be packaged in various sizes, starting from 1 liter to 5 liters. PTPN is also still open to the possibility of increasing the production capacity of the cooking oil factory if later the demand in the market continues to increase. In 2017, the projected need for packaged cooking oil in Indonesia reached 1.1 million tons and bulk cooking oil was 3.5 million tons.

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