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Article: INDONESIA - The Fertilisers Business.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- March 17, 2003
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Indonesia now has the capacity to produce more than 3.80 million tons/year of urea and 3.36 million tons/year of ammonia. This compares with 3.25 million t/y of urea and 1.8 million t/y of ammonia in the first quarter of 2001.
The main production centres for fertilisers 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 Suharto announced a national objective of self-sufficiency in fertilisers production. ...