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Kimia Farma to set up RI's first pharmaceutical salt facilities
State-run pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma plans to construct a national scale pharmaceutical salt factory in East Java in a bid to reduce imports
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tate-run pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma plans to construct a national scale pharmaceutical salt factory in East Java in a bid to reduce imports.
The planned factory, which will be located in Watudakon, Jombang, will become Indonesia's first pharmaceutical salt plant.
"We are expecting the facilities can commence its operation in the end of 2014 so that we do not have to import more [pharmaceutical] salt," State-Owned Eterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said in Jakarta on Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.
Dahlan said that the new factory would be able to produce 2,000 tons of salt annually or two thirds of the nation's demand. It is expected to increase its annual production capacity to 3,000 tons.
"We are hoping that next year we can increase the capacity to 6,000 tons. We also want to export the salt after we can fully supply the local market," Kimia Farma president director Rusdi Rosman said.
Rusdi said that the price of locally produced salt would be much lower than the imported one.
Pharmaceutical salt is a crucial ingredient for infusion, tablets, vaccine dissolve elements, haemodialysis and oral rehydration therapy (oralit). (nfo)
