Torganda's new CPO plant

Torganda's new CPO plant

JAKARTA (JP): Plantation firm PT Torganda announced on Monday
it would build a crude palm oil (CPO) processing plant and crumb
rubber plant in Bengkulu.

Torganda's president D.L. Sitorus was quoted by Antara as
saying in Medan, North Sumatra, that the new CPO plant would
support its planned integrated cooking oil industry.

"We want to build an integrated cooking oil industry which can
absorb local workforce. We currently own three CPO plants and we
want to develop another one," he said.

He refused to reveal the total investment for the plant and
the construction schedule.

Torganda, one of the biggest plantation firms in Sumatra,
currently operates 72,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in
North Sumatra, 40 hectares of rubber plantations in Riau and 200
hectares of cacao plantations in Bengkulu. (gis)