The factory is located near the north-east border of the village Sawit Seberang, north of Medan, about 30 km northwest of the town Stabat - nowadays the seat of Langkat - and north of the city Binjai, formerly also written as Bindjai.
During the colonial era the plantations of Sawit Seberang expanded until the fields near Gohor Lama, about 13 km towards south-east direction.