Buana Tirta Utama

About Buana Tirta Utama

PT Buana Tirta Utama is an Indonesian contract beverage filler in Gresik, East Java. Its own site, shared with the sister company PT Fruit-ING Indonesia, describes it as working "side by side" on private-label beverages, filling juices, tea and milk drinks for brand owners and developing the recipe, the design and the container with the customer.^[1] It appears on packs as the maker rather than the seller: the 200 ml Tehbotol Sosro carton prints "Diproduksi Oleh/Manufactured by: PT. Buana Tirta Utama, Gresik 61121 - Indonesia" above the line naming PT Sinar Sosro as the company it is made for.^[2]

The company's timeline dates the start of operations to 2000; in 2002–2003 it packed Sunfill juice powder as an OEM for The Coca-Cola Company and installed an aseptic line for 200 ml packs rated at 13,500 packs an hour.^[3] The same timeline lists the acquisition of PT Fruit-ING Indonesia in 2012 and, from 2016, drinks under its own Calista brand.^[3] IngredienTrade.com, Inc., a New York bulk-fruit trader, describes Fruit-ING as a joint venture between itself and Buana Tirta Utama as its local partner.^[4] Both companies share one address in the Gresik industrial estate (Kawasan Industri Gresik).^[5]