Our Business
REA Kaltim is committed to implementing best practices in all facets of our operations in order to fulfill our vision of being a trusted producer of palm oil and ensure we achieve sustainability of our business and the environment in which we operate.
Our Business Value Chain
SEEDLING NURSERY
All new plantings are grown from specially selected seed bought from third party suppliers able to provide material with well established yield potential. Seed is initially planted out in nurseries for a period of nine to twelve months where it grows into seedlings suitable for planting.
IMMATURE AREA
Seedlings are then transported to prepared areas where the young palms grow for about 30 months after field planting before starting to produce fruit.
HARVESTING
Once the fresh fruit bunches (FFB) ripen, they are harvested manually by harvesters. Harvested bunches, together with any detached fruitlets are taken to collection points on the estate roads. From there, they are loaded into mini-tractors and transferred to lorries which transport the crop to the group’s oil mills for processing.
PROCESSING
FFB harvested is processed in REA Kaltim’s three oil mills. The separated fruitlets pass to a screw press which extracts the CPO from the fleshy pulp or mesocarp leaving a press-cake containing fibre and nuts. Extracted CPO then proceeds through clarification, purification and vacuum drying processes, after which it is pumped to tanks adjacent to each mill for temporary storage.
Two of the group’s oil mills each incorporate a palm kernel crushing plant where the palm kernels are further processed to extract the CPKO that they contain.
The residues are not wasted: the fibre is used as fuel in the boiler; the empty fruit bunches are recycled as organic compost; and effluent from the mills is reprocessed at REA’s biogas facilities.
DELIVERY
CPO and CPKO produced by the group’s oil mills are transferred by road tankers to nearby loading points on the Belayan River and from there downstream to a trans-shipment terminal near the mouth of the Mahakam River using a fleet of dedicated river barges. Here CPO and CPKO are stored pending collection by buyers or loaded to seagoing barges for delivery to buyers elsewhere in Indonesia or to international destinations.
Biogas
REA Kaltim’s biogas facilities reinforce our commitment to conducting sustainable business practices by generating renewable electricity to operate our mills, estate field & office operations and housing emplacements. Our renewable electricity generation is also consumed by PLN to provide electricity to the surrounding communities.
Balikpapan Office
Gedung Grha Bintang 1st Floor B-C-D
Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No. 423, Damai Bahagia
Balikpapan – 76114
Kalimantan Timur
Tel: +62 542 852 4522
Fax: +62 542 852 5434
ESTATE
Perdana Estate
Desa Perdana KM 6
Kec. Kembang Janggut, Kab. Kutai Kartanegara
Kalimantan Timur
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