DIET A Side-Order at Copenhagen Conference

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 12/15/2009

Two DIET (Dry Ice Expanded Tobacco) plants that are to be built in Indonesia will use CO2 captured from a steel manufacturing plant to process tobacco produced by farmers in Wonosobo, Central Java, according to a story in The Jakarta Post. Resources Jaya Teknik Management Indonesia (RMI), which is active in capturing CO2 from industrial activity, is said to have signed an agreement on Saturday with Union Engineering of Denmark for the development of the plants. The deal was signed in Copenhagen on the sidelines of the UN climate change conference. Under the agreement, Union Energy subsidiary, AircoDiet, will supply RMI with two DIET plants with a processing capacity of 600 kg of tobacco per hour. The total investment is put at US$12 million. "This actually the transfer of technology from Union Engineering in order to help us develop CO2 capture technology in Indonesia," RMI chairman, Rohmad Hadiwijoyo, said after signing the agreement with Union Engineering chief sales officer, Michael Mortensen. Transfer of technology is one of the key issues being discussed at the climate meeting in Copenhagen. The new DIET plants will use CO2 captured from the state-owned PT Krakatau Steel and will sell the end product to Sumatra Tobacco, of Medan, North Sumatra. Enditem