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Article: Indonesia - The Fertilisers Business.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- March 15, 1999
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Indonesia now has the capacity to produce almost 3.25 million tons/year of urea and 1.3 million tons/year of ammonia. Current expansions are to bring the capacity to almost 3.9 million t/y of urea and more than 2.75 million t/y of ammonia in 2000.
The main fertilisers production centres are Palembang, Cikampek and East Kalimantan, covering the nation's three main islands. The following are brief profiles of the main plants:
Palembang, in Southern Sumatra near the 143,000 b/d Musi refinery, was built in the early 1970s as the biggest fertilisers centre in South-East Asia. That was when the then ruler, Suharto, announced a national objective of self- ...