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Lotte’s Indonesian gamble

By Malini Hariharan South Korea’s Lotte Group, parent company of Honam Petrochemical, is making yet another bold move. After acquiring Malaysia’s Titan Chemicals last year, Lotte has set its sights on a major petrochemical project in Indonesia. “We will start the feasibility study to develop a petrochemical project in Merak, Banten province, this year. The […]

Chandra Asri And TriPolyta To Merge

By John Richardson The consolidation talked about in Indonesia for more than ten years – that between cracker operator and polyethylene (PE) producer Chandra Asri and polypropylene (PP) producer TriPolyta – is finally set to happen by January next year. Now it will be up to the companies to make the synergies work with the most […]

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