Jakarta (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - Indonesian agribusiness company PT Astra Agro Lestari (JSX:AALI) said it plans to build two crude palm oil processing plants with an investment of Rp200 billion (US$19 million) next year.

The new factories, to be built in South Kalimantan and South Sulawesi, will have a processing capacity of 45 tons of fresh oil palm fruit bunches per hour, Vice President of the company Tonny Hernawan said.

Currently the company has 21 factories with a processing capacity of 985 tons per hour.

The company posted a 8.8 per cent increase in CPO sales to 767,940 tons in the first nine months of this year from the same period last year.


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Business in Asia Today - Oct 19, 2009
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