Bogasari starts up plant in S'pore

Bogasari starts up plant in S'pore

SINGAPORE: Indonesia's Bogasari Flour Mills has started
running in Singapore its first overseas flour plant, a senior
company official told Dow Jones on Thursday.

Bogasari International is currently running at under 30
percent of full capacity of 60,000 metric tons of high-grade
flour a year, said Philip Purnama, Bogasari's senior vice
president and chief commercial officer.

"We started operation in March. Our target is to run at 60
percent capacity by the end of the year," said Purnama.

Bogasari, the biggest flour miller and wheat importer in
Indonesia, is also the world's biggest flour miller, with a
10,000-ton wheat milling capacity in Jakarta and a 6,000-ton
milling capacity in Surabaya.

The flour miller is a division of the world's leading instant
noodle maker, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, and part of Indonesia's
Salim Group. -- Dow Jones