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c. Establishment of LLDPE plant will create jobs in order to improve human resources.
d. The increase investors in the country, especially the polymer industry
1.2. Design Capacity
In determining the design capacity of the polyethylene plant, there are several considerations i.e. the capacity of the existing plant, availability of raw
materials, estimated product needs and total import and export products. The Indonesia’s Export and Import LLDPE Data 1999-2013 unit: tons year can
be seen in Table 1. Table 1. Export import BPS data tons
No Year
Export Import
∆ E-I 1
1999 575,636
1,536,261 -960,625
2 2000
3,796,042 1,054,674
2,741,368 3
2001 832,441
648,393 184,048
4 2002
570,511 414,658
155,853 5
2003 1,920,150
329,372 1,590,778
6 2004
502,065 243,037
259,028 7
2005 887
83,032 -82,145
8 2006
93,122 27,656
65,466 9
2007 358,551
751,872 -393,321
10 2008
56,249 1,862,392
-1,806,143 11
2009 30,436
886,906 -856,470
12 2010
15,723 1,348,812
-1,333,089 13
2011 2,250
848,297 -846,047
14 2012
250 2,609,906
-2,609,656 15
2013 1,501
2,637,624 -2,636,123
16 2014
91,799 2,588,613
-2,496,814 Sor: BPS, 2014
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From Table 1, Indonesia at 1999- 2002 can export the LLDPE more than 500.000 ton, but after 2003 the export product is decreasing until below
10.000 more over at 2005 and 2012 under 1.000 ton.The decreasing of export cause by increasing local requirement of LLDPE.
On the other hand, the import data Table 2 show in the 2004 our requirement increase. Import requirement of LLDPE always above
500.000 tonyear, without additional domestic production the number of import will be increased.
Total domestic production showed at Table 3 is 736.000 tonyear from 3 big factories in Indonesia. In reality that production can
’t solve requirement if Indonesia requirement.
Table 2. Domestic and International production
No Producer
Country LLDPE Production
tonyear 1
PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk Indonesia
336,000 2
PT Lotte Chemical Titan Tbk Indonesia
200,000 3
PT Petrokimia Nusantara Interindo Indonesia
200,000 4
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co USA
500,000 5
Eastern Petrochemical Co Saudi Arabia
500,000 6
INEOS Grangemouth UK
330,000 7
INEOS Koeln Germany
270,000 8
SASOL Co South Africa
220,000 9
Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Company
Saudi Arabia 400,000
10 Total Petrochemical USA
400,000 Sor: annual plant repot, 2014
Europe, North America and Middle East had been produced LLDPE in the range of 400 to 500 kton per year and Africa just 200 kton. East Asia and
south east Asia didn’t build big amount yet, world can make more than
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200ktonprofitable then if Indonesia use the technology we can fulfill the domestic demand of LLDPE.
Figure 1. Export import of polyethylene 2005-2014 Predicted that every year LLDPE demand rise 3 ICN, 2008, so that the
government and the company continue to improve its LLDPE production. Using comparison BJS data from 10 year ago until now 2005-2014 we got
Graph 1., for namely 2005 as 1 and 2014 as 10 point at X direction, we get y = 28805X-219816 for Import and y = -10857X -124789, after that if we
want to operation the new plant in 2027 22 point we get import requirement y = 2880522-219816 = 413.894 Tonyear or simply become
400.000 tonesyear.
1.3. Location Selection
