Recently, Energy China Gezhouba Group and Indonesia Raman Mining Company signed an EPC contract for the Indonesian alumina refinery project, successfully breaking through the large-scale metallurgical industry market in Indonesia. The successful signing of the project is another important result of the Group’s active participation in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the implementation of the “Going Global” of central enterprises’ coordination, accelerating transformation and upgrading, and promoting the “Going Global” of non-electric business.

Contract signing at home and abroad

Project location

The project is approximately 180 kilometers away from Pontianak, the capital of West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The main work content is to build a new alumina refinery with a production capacity of 2 million tons per year. The contract period is 33 months. After the completion of the project, the local infrastructure and industrialization level will be greatly improved, tax revenue will be significantly increased, employment will be promoted, and the development of Indonesia's bauxite mining, raw material supply, logistics and transportation, supporting services and other related industries will be radiated.

Indonesia advantage

Indonesia is dominated by laterite-type bauxite. The identified bauxite reserves are 1 billion tons, ranking sixth in the world, accounting for about 3.57% of the world's total reserves, mainly distributed in western Kalimantan Island, Bangka Island and other regions. The West Kalimantan bauxite metallogenic belt is one of the most important producing areas of bauxite in Southeast Asia. The deposit is large in scale and the ore quality is good. The Al2O3 content is 45%-55%. The Indonesian government has successively introduced policies in recent years, hoping to encourage enterprises that invest in the development of mineral resources to establish smelting and processing plants in Indonesia by changing the method of purely exporting resources, and to retain more mineral processing links in Indonesia to increase the added value of ore products and provide more More jobs.

Indonesia is an important fulcrum for the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, and it is also a key country for the Gezhouba Group to cultivate overseas. Energy China Gezhouba Group will seize the opportunity to efficiently promote project construction and operation management, and make positive contributions to the promotion of China-Indonesia comprehensive strategic partnership. Editor/Tian Zengpeng