CISDI is the engineering consultant for a new Indonesian nickel cobalt wet extraction plant set to be the biggest in the world.

Based on Indonesia’s Morowali industrial park, Huayue’s nickel cobalt project will produce 60,000 tonnes of nickel hydroxide cobalt (MHP) a year - the largest capacity of nickel-bearing laterite wet process in the world. 

Construction has now begun and separate plants will be created for ore-washing, separation, acid pressure leaching, sulphuric acid, limestone and the tailing dam, along with utilities facilities.

This will be the third reference of its kind for CISDI. Its engineering consultants previously worked on the creation of plants for Ramu Nico in Papua New Guinea and OBI in Indonesia.

CISDI’s team, which arrived in Indonesia in June 2019, has carried out a field leveling plan, surveys, piling tests and foundation treatments and constructed site accommodation.

At each stage, CISDI’s feasibility optimisations have accelerated the project’s front-end progression.

Huayue’s nickel cobalt project is now underway in Indonesia