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)