MOSCOW (MRC) -- Jakarta-listed PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical (TPIA), the country’s largest petrochemical producer, has made the assets of its two subsidiaries, PT Styrindo Mono Indonesia and PT Petrokimia Butadine Indonesia, collateral for loans worth USD533 million, reported Plastemart with reference to The Jakarta Post.
Chandra Asri, along with its two subsidiaries, signed a security sharing agreement with nine lenders, including DBS Bank Ltd., Bank Central Asia (BCA) and Bank Danamon Indonesia. Since last year, Chandra Asri has been looking for financing to partly expand its naphtha cracker facility from 600,000 kilotons of ethylene to 860,000 kilotons.
The naphtha cracker expansion, which requires USD380 mln in investment, is necessary to support Chandra Asri’s other expansions on other products, like ethylene, propylene, pyrolysis gasoline and mixed C4. Apart from higher ethylene production, the project will also see a boost in its annual production capacity of propylene by 150,000 tons to 470,000, pyrolysis gasoline by 120,000 tons to 400,000, and mixed C4 by 95,000 tons to 315,000.
As MRC wrote before, last June, German petrochemical company Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH and Chandra Asri Petrochemical agreed to work on studies for the development of a petrochemical plant. Under an agreement, Ferrostaal and Chandra Asri has been developing a methanol-based olefin production complex in Teluk Bintuni in West Papua, with a total investment amounting to USD1.89 billion. The complex is expected to produce up to 400,000 tonnes of polypropylene and 175,000 tonnes of ethylene annually.
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