Our story
From polymers to sustainable fuels
Namindo carries one engineer's working life, from polymer plants in Punjab to sustainable aviation fuel in Indonesia.
- 1988
Polymers in Punjab
Our founder starts as a process engineer in polymer plants in India, at JCT Fibers and Reliance Petrochemicals.
- 1992
Indorama, Indonesia
Grows the domestic polymer fibre business from under USD 10 million to about USD 130 million a year, and works on biodegradable fibres.
- 1998
PET and PTA plants
Sets up a USD 120 million greenfield PET plant and helps move the ICI PTA plant from the USA to Karawang. Two global patents with DuPont and Barmag.
- 2005
Oerlikon Barmag and OC Oerlikon, Germany
Seven years as Technology Advisor. 12 world patents in polymer process technology at Barmag, now part of Rieter of Switzerland. Thin-film solar PV plants for Asia with Oerlikon Solar, later TEL Solar of Tokyo Electron.
- 2006
Namindo Pty Ltd
Namindo Pty Ltd is established in Australia, with the logo it still carries today.
- 2013
Power for Timor-Leste
Delivers the Hera and Betano power plants, 257 MWe, with the national grid, substations and dispatch centre.
- 2015
Ammonia in Sulawesi
Vice President (Projects) on the USD 850 million Panca Amara Utama ammonia complex. It now runs at 112% of rated capacity. With Yokogawa, he installed fibre-optic leak detection on its ammonia tanks and pipelines, and integrated its ERP, asset management and plant data.
- 2022
New energy at PT ESSA
Leads development of HEFA sustainable aviation fuel, green ammonia, e-methanol, biogas and CO₂ capture projects. Keynote on materials for the biofuel transition, Singapore 2026.
- Today
Namindo, owner's engineer and technology developer
Owner's engineering and new process technology for energy, biofuels and SAF, from Melbourne, Jakarta and India.