Kujang plans a new plant

Kujang plans a new plant

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned fertilizer producer PT Pupuk Kujang
has began construction of a new plant adjacent to its existing
facility in Cikampek, West Java, in order to make up for a supply
shortage in the province, Antara reported on Tuesday.

The Kujang 1-B plant will have the same capacity as the
existing facility -- 570,000 metric tons of urea and 330,000
metric tons of ammonia per year -- and will become operational in
2001, the news agency quoted Kujang spokesman Arifin as saying.

The existing plant was built 20 years ago and was running at
99 percent of its capacity in 1998, he said.

"The new plant will ease the supply shortage in Indonesia,
particularly West Java," he said, adding that the province still
had to buy urea from PT Pupuk Sriwijaya, another state-owned
fertilizer producer based in South Sumatra. (02)