PT Garam, a subsidiary of ID Food, plans to build a wastewater treatment plant in Balikpapan City to process wastewater from the National Oil Company Refinery Development Master Plan (RDMP) into industrial salt. The project has an investment of 7 trillion rupiah and is expected to start construction in April 2026. The company secretary of PT Garam stated that the brine from the boiler process at Pertamina's Balikpapan refinery was previously only neutralized and discharged directly into the sea, while the plant uses seawater for boiler needs. This resource characteristic gives the wastewater-to-salt project huge development potential.
Currently, PT Garam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Pertamina, and both parties are advancing a feasibility study. The plan has also been reported to Danantara, Indonesia's strategic asset investment management agency. The three parties plan to collaborate on establishing a new entity to push the project forward. Danantara has also set a target to move the project into the second phase of construction in April this year, and Pertamina welcomes this new commercial cooperation opportunity. The wastewater treatment plant will be equipped with Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) technology, capable of processing wastewater with a Baume degree of at least 4 degrees. It has a designed annual capacity of 1 million tons of industrial salt, aiming to meet Indonesia's industrial market demand. This project is one of PT Garam's seven strategic salt processing projects. The company has allocated a total investment of 10 trillion rupiah for all deep processing and salt technology development projects, with the Balikpapan project being the largest investment. The other six projects include: building a salt processing facility with an annual capacity of 109,842 tons in Bipolo City, East Nusa Tenggara, covering an area of 300 hectares; constructing two MVR technology salt processing plants in Gresik City, with capacities of 100,000 tons and 400,000 tons.
Producing calcium and magnesium from salt by-product bittern in Sambang City, in cooperation with Swedish investors; building a salt processing plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons in Rotendau City, East Nusa Tenggara; and constructing a salt plant with an annual capacity of 80,000-160,000 tons in Sumenep City in collaboration with entrepreneurs from Madura Island, with a project investment of 300 billion Indonesian rupiah.
PT Garam, a subsidiary of ID Food, plans to build a wastewater treatment plant in Balikpapan City to process wastewater from the National Oil Company Refinery Development Master Plan (RDMP) into industrial salt. The project has an investment of 7 trillion rupiah and is expected to start construction in April 2026. The company secretary of PT Garam stated that the brine from the boiler process at Pertamina's Balikpapan refinery was previously only neutralized and discharged directly into the sea, while the plant uses seawater for boiler needs. This resource characteristic gives the wastewater-to-salt project huge development potential.
Currently, PT Garam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Pertamina, and both parties are advancing a feasibility study. The plan has also been reported to Danantara, Indonesia's strategic asset investment management agency. The three parties plan to collaborate on establishing a new entity to push the project forward. Danantara has also set a target to move the project into the second phase of construction in April this year, and Pertamina welcomes this new commercial cooperation opportunity. The wastewater treatment plant will be equipped with Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) technology, capable of processing wastewater with a Baume degree of at least 4 degrees. It has a designed annual capacity of 1 million tons of industrial salt, aiming to meet Indonesia's industrial market demand. This project is one of PT Garam's seven strategic salt processing projects. The company has allocated a total investment of 10 trillion rupiah for all deep processing and salt technology development projects, with the Balikpapan project being the largest investment. The other six projects include: building a salt processing facility with an annual capacity of 109,842 tons in Bipolo City, East Nusa Tenggara, covering an area of 300 hectares; constructing two MVR technology salt processing plants in Gresik City, with capacities of 100,000 tons and 400,000 tons.
Producing calcium and magnesium from salt by-product bittern in Sambang City, in cooperation with Swedish investors; building a salt processing plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons in Rotendau City, East Nusa Tenggara; and constructing a salt plant with an annual capacity of 80,000-160,000 tons in Sumenep City in collaboration with entrepreneurs from Madura Island, with a project investment of 300 billion Indonesian rupiah.