PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk or PTBA and PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical signed a joint study of development of coal gasification to polypropylene. This signing was done by PTBA Business Development Director, Fuad Iskandar Zulkarnaen, and Head of Monomer Manager Department, Lingga Widastri, in Bandung, Wednesday (30/08).

In this partnership, PTBA provides low-calorie coal which will be processed through gasification as raw material in polypropylene production from PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical. This feasibility study will last for up to two years.

As a coal provider, PTBA utilizes low-calorie coal to be processed through coal gasification technology so as to increase the value of the coal. In addition, this cooperation is a form of PTBA's commitment to become an energy company, in which PTBA not only sells coal, but in its processed form with coal gasification.

Through this gasification process, coal is processed through gasification process into gas as a replacement raw material in polypropylene processing. The process of coal gasification is an alternative for the pettochemical industry which is currently getting difficult to get raw materials in the form of gas and naptha. It is expected that by using syngas result of low calorie coal gasification, can guarantee petrochemical raw material in the ground water.

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