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Country outlook
since 1998, when it acquired Kangar Consolidated
Industries (KCI) as part of its takeover of Kangar’s
Australian parent company, ACI Glass Packaging.
Kangar Consolidated has been engaged in container
glass production in the country since 1973.
Owens Illinois’s Indonesian plant is based in the
Jakarta suburban area of Cakung. It consists of two
furnaces and six machine lines with an installed capacity
of 2.64 million bottles per day. The American company
underwent an expansion programme in 2014 to increase
the installed capacity from 2.23 million bottles per day
to the current capacity. During the same expansion, O-I
also adopted NNPB technology at its Indonesian manu-
facturing facility.
O-I Indonesia supplies container glass to major
brands of food, beverages, and pharmaceutical com-
panies such as PT Multi Bintang Tbk, Kratingdaeng,
Sambal Indofood, Hemaviton, and Marjan syrup,Coca
Cola, Heineken, Heinz, Danone, Nestle, Unilever, PT
Asia Health Energy Beverage, PT Djojonegoro, PT
Supra Ferbindo Farma and Ultra Prima Adadi.

PT Schott Igar Glass
PT Schott Igar Glass, a subsidiary of German con-
tainer glass manufacturer Schott, is a leading pharma-
ceutical glass manufacturer in Indonesia. Schott entered
Indonesia in 1996 by means of a joint venture with the
pharmaceutical manufacturer PT Kalbe Farma. In 1997,
Schott purchased Kalbe’s 51 per cent stake in the ven-
ture and consolidated the Indonesian company under
Schott International.
The Indonesian factory is located on an area of
30,000 square meters in Bekasi, and has 70 produc-
tion lines. The state of the art manufacturing facility
is capable of producing 700 million vials, ampoules,
pipettes and special articles for the pharmaceutical
market every year. A number of leading global pharma-
ceutical producing companies such as Roche, Aventis
and Pharmacia and local companies like Biofarma and
Harsen are among the company’s customers. About 60
per cent of its products are sold locally, while the rest is
exported to about 20 markets in ASEAN countries, the
Middle East, India and Pakistan. O