Country profile: Indonesia
growth during the year. According to the Indonesian Packaging Federation (FPI) the pharmaceutical industry is of overwhelming importance to Indonesia’s packaging market, second only to the food and beverage industry. Considering the sheer size of this sector, high quality, sophisticated packaging is increasingly needed in the country in the fight against counterfeited pharma products. Glass packaging, as the highest quality packaging among all other alternatives, is expected to gain considerable share in the pharma packaging market. company believes that the growth trend of flat and automotive glass will continue to increase in the future, in line with the growth of property and automotive demand in the country.” Its net sales in 2017 were Rp. 3.89 trillion, up 4% compared to 2016, but still 6% below the sales target it set. The company attributed the weakening of demand in value-added glass products from the middle and upper class segment of the property in the domestic market. Its flat glass unit recorded net sales of Rp. 2.60 trillion in 2017, an increase of around 4% over the previous year. Meanwhile, the automotive glass business unit recorded net sales of Rp. 1.29 trillion or an increase of around 6% compared to the year 2016, when it recorded net sales of Rp. 1.22 trillion.
PT Mulia Glass (Flat Glass division)
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PT Mulia Glass was established in 1989 to produce flat glass in the country and is the second largest flat glass producer in Indonesia. With an installed annual capacity of 595,000 tonnes of float glass, the company produces plain and coloured float glass (dark gray, dark blue, bronze, euro gray, light green, gray) and low-e glass with thickness of 2 15mm. The automotive safety glass division was established in 1997 with an installed production capacity of 120,000 car sets per year. In 2017, the company registered a sales volume of 521,213 tonnes of float glass. 65% of the total sales went to the domestic market, while the remaining 35% was exported. The sales volume of automotive safety glass increased by 8.8% year-on-year to reach 644,882 m2 in 2017, supported by the introduction of new brands and models of cars in the country during the year.
Hollow and container sector Continued to be catered by four major container glass producers, which have an aggregate installed capacity of more than 425,000 TPA, the Indonesian container glass industry is still dependent on imports for about 20% of its glass needs. Turnover of the overall packaging industry in Indonesia was IDR 79 trillion (approx. US$5.1 billion) in 2017, growing by 5.2% compared to a year earlier. Glass packaging, which comprises 19% of the total packaging has also registered
PT Mulia Glass PT Mulia Glass is a subsidiary of PT Mulia Industrindo that was established in 1989 in West Java, to produce glass products such as float, container, safety and block. Its container glass unit has a 40% share of the domestic market. Its container division has an installed capacity of 460 tonnes/day and has two furnaces and seven production lines. The company produces flint glass bottles for food and beverage segments. Mulia supplies glass containers to domestic food and beverage companies such PT Heinz-ABC Food Co; PT. Sinar Sosro (Tea bottle producer), PT.CCBI (Coca Cola Beverage Indonesia), PT. Indofood; PT. Unilever. Mulia is also an exporter of container glass. Some of its overseas customers are Coca Cola Amatil bottling plants in Australia, RC Cola in Philippines and Bangkok Glass Industry, Thailand. The sales volumes of glass containers declined by 1.8% year-on-year to 128,872 tonnes in 2017. It said: “Staying faithful to our strategy to continue developing various product types and expand both domestic and export markets, we would continue increasing sales of lightweight bottle, using narrow neck press and blow technology, as well as green coloured bottle, consumed by the alcoholic beverage industry.”
O-I Indonesia O-I has operated in Indonesia since 1973, when it was established under the name PT. Kangar Consolidated Industries (KCI). At the time, it consisted of one furnace and four production lines that produced glass bottles and tableware. A second furnace was installed in 1980 which tripled its capacity. O-I’s Jakarta plant consists of two furnaces and six machine lines, which produce around 2.3 million glass bottles per day for some of Indonesia’s food, beverage and pharmaceutical brands. Its customers include Multi Bintang, PT Asia Health Energy Beverage, PT Djojonegoro, PT Supra Ferbindo Farma and Ultra Prima Adadi. It has a one third share of the domestic container glass market and its product portfolio Continued>>
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