Cabot Raising Carbon Black Capacity in Indonesia

Cabot has announced plans to increase its capacity at the PT Cabot Indonesia subsidiary in Indonesia. The company will increase capacity at the plant in Merak, and has signed an agreement to purchase additional land near its plant in Cilegon to facilitate a future expansion at that site. The Merak expansion will be completed by mid-2011. The announcement stated that the expansion will increase Cabot’s total carbon black manufacturing capacity by 20 percent, but this is taken to mean the capacity of PT Cabot Indonesia. The state of the art capacity will use Cabot’s highly advanced energy recovery and environmental technologies.