KT&G told Hankooki.com today (November 12) that its Indonesian factory is scheduled to be completed within the month and is set to begin full-scale operations in February 2026. The 190,000-square-meter facility will produce cigarettes and capsule products for export across Southeast Asia and beyond, boosting KT&G’s annual production capacity in Indonesia to 35 billion cigarettes and making it the company’s largest overseas manufacturing base.

The announcement follows KT&G’s launch of a Kazakhstan plant in April, which has an annual capacity of 4.5 billion cigarettes and serves as a key export hub for the Eurasian market. With both sites operating, KT&G aims to shift more than half of its total output to overseas facilities in the medium to long term, improving global supply efficiency.

The company also plans to enter new markets such as Jordan and Bangladesh, while expanding its next-generation product (NGP) segment and nicotine pouch business through a strategic partnership and joint acquisition with Altria.

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