Pupuk Kalimantan Timur


PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur is one of the strategic industrial companies in Indonesia with five Ammonia plant units and five Urea plant units in one location in Bontang, East Kalimantan and is the subsidiary of PT Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company. While the NPK factory units are spread in three cities, including the production of organic fertilizer which is spread in five regions. Assets in 2016 reached Rp29,390 trillion.

History

Establsihment and early history

In 1977, an offshore fertilizer project was started on two ships owned by Pertamina, the largest Indonesian oil producer, which later became the beginning of the establishment of PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur. The success of the project finally began the establishment of a factory covering an area of 493 ha which was once a very dense forest area on the hillsides of the forests of East Kalimantan. Precisely on December 7, 1977, PKT was officially established. The main raw material for the plant in Bontang is natural gas which is piped from Muara Badak, about 60 km from the factory location.
Initially the Pupuk Kaltim project was managed by Pertamina with floating fertilizer factory facilities or a factory on board. Because of some technical considerations according to Presidential Decree No.43 of 1975 the project location was transferred to land, and through Presidential Decree 39 of 1976 the management was handed over from Pertamina to the Ministry of Industry.
In 1979 the construction of the Kaltim-1 plant began and the commercial operation period was first started in 1987. The Kaltim-2 plant was built in early 1982 and completed 3 months ahead of the stipulated schedule and succeeded in achieving commercial operations faster than East Kalimantan. -1, namely in 1984. The Kaltim-1 plant and Kaltim-2 factory were inaugurated by President Soeharto on October 28, 1984.
The Kaltim-3 plant was built in 1986 and was inaugurated on April 4, 1989. In addition, a unit for making urea formaldehyde with a capacity of 13,000 tons per year was built to improve the quality of urea fertilizer produced.

Development since 1990

On November 20, 1996 an IV urea unit was built which aims to increase added value for residual Ammonia and CO2 gas which is wasted into the atmosphere to produce granular urea products. The factory with a projected production capacity of 570,000 tons per year was completed on April 12, 1999. The investment value for the construction of the POPKA factory was USD 44 million and Rp 139 billion.
The Kaltim 4 factory was built in 1999 with a projected capacity of 570,000 tons of urea granule and 330,000 tons of ammonia per year. Construction of the urea plant was completed in mid-2002, while the ammonia plant was completed in early 2003. In 2007, Pupuk Kaltim made the NPK factory fuse blending in Bontang to produce NPK with phosphates imported from Morocco.
The Kaltim 5 plant, which is planned to have a capacity of 1.2 million tons of urea per year, will soon be realized by the Kaltim-5 Factory PKT which will replace the existence of the Kaltim-1 factory unit which is likely to be closed because it is old and inefficient. To support Kaltim-5 operations, Pupuk Kaltim will also build an ammonia plant with a capacity of around 600,000 tons per year.
At present Pupuk Kaltim has five Urea fertilizer plants with a total capacity of 2.98 million tons of urea per year and four Ammonia plants with a total capacity of 1.85 million tons of Ammonia per year. While NPK fertilizer production is as much as 350,000 tons per year with factories in three cities, namely: Bontang, Semarang and Surabaya.

Products

The products produced by Pupuk Kaltim are as follows:

Units

Ammonia: 2,510,000 tons / year
Urea: 2,980,000 tons / year
NPK: 350,000 tons / year

Accreditations, Awards, dan Certifications

Awards

Some of the national awards Pupuk Kaltim received in 1999 were:
Pupuk Kaltim has also received several international awards as follows:
In addition, the accreditation obtained by Pupuk Kaltim is as follows: