KT&G's No. 2 plant in Indonesia begins operations

KT&G Corp., South Korea's leading tobacco company, announced on Wednesday that its second tobacco manufacturing plant in Indonesia has commenced operations. The new facility is situated in Pasuruan, East Java, while KT&G's initial tobacco production plant in Indonesia is located in Surabaya, according to a press release issued by the company.

The recently commissioned Indonesian plant will serve as KT&G's manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia, with the production of goods for export to neighboring countries and other markets.

The plant boasts an impressive annual production capacity of 21 billion cigarettes, which, when added to KT&G's existing production capacity in Indonesia, brings the total to an astounding 35 billion cigarettes per year. KT&G currently operates tobacco plants in five countries - Korea, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. The combined annual production capacity of the four overseas plants is projected to reach 65 billion cigarettes, though the company did not specify when this target would be achieved.

Meanwhile, KT&G's three domestic plants have a combined annual production capacity of 56 billion cigarettes.

The company's ambition is to generate half of its sales overseas by the year 2027.