Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan inaugurated the QMB New Energy Materials project in Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP), Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi, Monday (26/9/2022).

"Today we are not only witnessing the rapid construction of a green, ecological, and intelligent modern factory, but also seeing the birth of the first nickel resource industry museum in Indonesian history," he said as quoted through a press release from the Coordinating Ministry of Marves.

For information, QMB is part of the Global Maritime Fulcrum Indonesia strategic cooperation framework and the One Belt, One Road initiative of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

This collaboration focuses on the utilization of local and environmentally friendly labor. So far, said Luhut, collaboration is going well and certainly cannot be separated from the support of the local community, central government, local government, and other stakeholders.

In addition to Indonesia, QMB is also a cooperation project with Korea and Japan. Thus, there are 4 countries in this cooperation, namely Indonesia, China, Korea, and Japan.

Furthermore, Luhut said, through this inauguration, Indonesia finally has a hydrometallurgical engineering center for laterite nickel ore and new energy materials with the standards and quality of developed countries.

This momentum is also a means of increasing comprehensive promotion for the development and utilization of laterite nickel mines in Indonesia. The design scale of this QMB project is to produce nickel, cobalt, manganese hydroxide as raw materials for ternary electric batteries with an output of 50,000 tons of metal nickel per year.

In addition to inaugurating the QMB project, the former Presidential Chief of Staff also reviewed PT Indonesia Puqing Recycling Technology (Puqing), PT Huayou Nickel Cobalt, and CNGR.

These three companies strive to guarantee the availability of raw materials for renewable industries downstream and upstream of the production chain. In addition, all of them seek to reduce carbon emissions produced in the process of processing renewable energy as a form of environmental protection.

On the occasion of the inauguration, Luhut thanked Xu Kai Hua as the founder of GEM for training a large number of hydrometallurgical talents locally or from Indonesia.

"Our best hope is that QMB will continue to advance like a sea wave in the field of new energy materials and always be at the forefront of the present to the future," he concluded.

Source: https://money.kompas.com/read/2022/09/26/211000326/resmikan-proyek-qmb-luhut--kita-melihat-lahirnya-museum-industri-nikel-yang