Lonsum

About Business Network

PT PP London Sumatra Indonesia Tbk, also known as “Lonsum”, was established in 1906 when Harrisons & Crosfield Plc, a general trading and plantation management services firm based in London, UK, started its first plantation in Indonesia near the city of Medan in North Sumatra. Through a journey more than a century, Lonsum has evolved to become one of the renowned plantation companies in Indonesia.

Lonsum’s principal activities are plant breeding, planting, harvesting, processing and the selling of palm products, rubber, oil palm seeds, cocoa and tea. In its early years, Lonsum’s diversified crops were rubber, tea and cocoa. Lonsum commenced oil palm plantations in 1980’s and since then oil palm has grew and became primary crop and major growth contributor to the company.