Visiting CNGR Facilities In China, Coordinating Minister Airlangga Encourages R&D Cooperation With UGM

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JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto visited CNGR's integrated industrial facility based in the southern part of Qinzhou, China closest to Southeast Asia, a distance of approximately 90 km from the southern Chinese city of Nanning.

As for the occasion, Coordinating Minister Airlangga was immediately accepted by Deng Wei Ming, Chairman of CNGR.

During the visit, Airlangga directly checked various industrial facilities, namely the Oxygen Enriched Side Blown Furnace (OESBF) technology facility for mineral reserve resilience because it can take nickel coverage with a wider grade. Then look at the Nickel Electronic facility that uses centrifugation extraction technology.

Furthermore, we also see technology for the production of raw material battery lithium precursors, which CNGR is currently the global top for precursor suppliers for the battery lithium industrial chain for 4 consecutive years, which is used by many leading industries such as Tesla, Samsung, LG, SK, Panasonic.

After directly checking various technological innovations in an integrated industrial chain in the EV supply chain (Electric Vehicles), Airlangga also encouraged CNGR to help develop R&D materials for new energy in collaboration with universities, in this case with the Faculty of Engineering, Gajah Mada University (FT UGM).

Through this collaboration, the establishment of the Metal Energy R&D Center or the Energy Material Research and Development Center will be prepared.

"It is hoped that with the support of CNGR, it will focus more on materials for new energy," explained Airlangga in his statement, Monday, May 27.

Meanwhile, UGM will encourage the development of the Engineering Research Innovation Center in UGM, which currently has more research on recycling, rare earth elements, deposit materials in Indonesia.

On the same occasion, Chairman Deng revealed that CNGR is committed to collaborating with leading universities in Indonesia in the development of the diversification of material industry technology for new energy in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, CNGR is a large group of companies from China engaged in the nickel processing industry from upstream to downstream, a company that leads development and innovation in the field of material energy, and is recognized as The World Leader in New Energy Materials.

CNGR conducts 4 industrial modernizations, namely technological diversification, globalization of development, digitization of operations and making industrial ecology.

As an integrated industry in nickel processing, CNGR produces Synthesia Precursor Terner and Nickel Elektronik. CNGR plans to invest IDR 168.2 trillion in the next 20 years, and since 2021 it has invested IDR 32.1 trillion in Indonesia.

In addition, CNGR has built nickel processing industry facilities in Morowali, North Morowali, Weda Bay, and Batulicin.

Currently, CNGR is starting to develop integrated regional facilities in North Konawe called the Konasara Green Technology Industrial Estate (KITHK) covering an area of more than 5,000 Ha which will begin construction in the fourth quarter of 2024, and will absorb 28 thousand local workers.

To maintain the sustainability of Indonesia's mineral reserves and resilience, CNGR is processing nickel ore with the innovation of OESBF technology, which is the first industry in the world to implement the use of nickel ore with a wider grade coverage, energy efficiency that minimizes carbon emissions, and environmentally friendly waste production and can be utilized by other industries.

In addition, as a result of synergies with mineral downstream policy in Indonesia, CNGR has succeeded in producing Nickel Electronics (Nickel Cathode) with a purity of 99.99 percent and as of May 23, 2024 yesterday it brought Indonesian nickel into the metal supply chain at LME (London Metal Exchange).