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