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

In more detail, the QMB project became the opening of the production chain of new energy raw materials from hydrometallurgical laterite nickel ore.

"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," said Coordinating Minister Marves Luhut in his speech.

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

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

It should be noted that QMB is part of indonesia's Global Maritime Fulcrum strategic cooperation framework and the People's Republic of China's (PRC's One Belt, One Road) initiative.

This collaboration focuses on the utilization of local and environmentally friendly labor. So far, 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, so there are four countries in this cooperation, namely Indonesia, China, Korea, and Japan.

Coordinating Minister Luhut on the occasion thanked Professor Xu Kai Hua as the founder of GEM for training a large number of outstanding hydrometallurgical talents for 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," said Coordinating Minister Luhut.

In addition to inaugurating the QMB project, Coordinating Minister Luhut 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.

Source: https://infopublik.id/kategori/nasional-ekonomi-bisnis/669685/indonesia-miliki-pusat-teknik-hidrometalurgi-bijih-nikel-laterit