KT&G Corporation

KT&G Completes Five-Country Network, Indonesia Hits 35 Billion Sticks

Seoul – October 07, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation has started full-scale operations at a new cigarette plant in Pasuruan, East Java, pushing its Indonesian production capacity to as much as 35 billion sticks annually and completing a five-country global manufacturing network spanning South Korea, Indonesia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Türkiye.

New Pasuruan plant lifts Indonesia to KT&G's largest overseas production base

Once all nine cigarette manufacturing lines are installed, the new facility alone will carry an annual capacity of up to 21 billion sticks. Combined with the existing plant's 14-billion-stick capacity, total output in Indonesia will reach up to 35 billion sticks, making the country KT&G's biggest manufacturing hub outside South Korea.

KT&G Quadruples InterTabac Booth Size, Pushes Global Distribution

Seoul – September 24, 2026 -- KT&G Corporation closed its participation in InterTabac 2026, the world's largest tobacco trade fair, after operating an exhibition booth roughly four times larger than its 2025 footprint at the Dortmund, Germany event held September 15-17.

KT&G expands booth fourfold to showcase combustible and next-generation product lines

The Korean manufacturer organized its expanded space into four themed zones by product category, displaying combustible cigarette brands ESSE and BOHEM alongside next-generation products (NGP), vapor devices and nicotine pouches. InterTabac drew roughly 800 companies from more than 70 countries across 12 exhibition halls this year.