[Ferro-Alloys.com] 

Chinese company to build EV battery factory in Morowali in 2025

In the giant industrial area owned by PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP), there are 54 companies involved in nickel management. Raw material in the form of ore, which comes from mining companies throughout Indonesia, is processed here into various metal and mineral elements.

Currently, two plants at IMIP have been operating to produce non-steel materials, namely PT Huayue Nickel Cobalt and PT QMB New Energy Materia.

Both factories produce cathodes for electric car batteries, with a production capacity of 70,000 tons of nickel cobalt (Ni-Co) per year and 50,000 tons of nickel sulphide and nickel cobalt (Ni-Co) per year, respectively.

In 2024, IMIP plans to build a battery factory in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, as a concrete step in realizing nickel downstreaming.

• [Editor:邢亚敏]