French mining company Eramet Indonesia announced a nickel ore production target of 42 million tonnes for the year, dedicated to its joint venture with Tsingshan Holding Group and PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) in the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP), North Maluku.
Eramet Indonesia CEO Jérôme Baudelet revealed that Weda Bay's original 2025 Work Plan and Budget (RKAB) approval was 32 million tonnes, but the company secured an additional 10 million tonnes this year, bringing its total approved RKAB volume at IWIP to 42 million tonnes.
Speaking in Jakarta on Monday (August 25, 2025), Baudelet stated that the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources recently approved the extra 10 million tonnes. Of the total, 30 million tonnes will be high-grade nickel (saprolite), with 27 million tonnes supplied to nickel pig iron (NPI) processing and refining smelters in Indonesia and 3 million tonnes to Eramet's own smelters. The remaining 12 million tonnes of low-grade nickel (limonite) will feed high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL) smelters.
Written by Cora Ji, jiruyan@mysteel.com
