The Greatpower New Energy Battery Materials Integrated Project (Phase I), located in the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park, has entered its final sprint phase. Since construction began, the project team has maintained an efficient pace and overcame multiple challenges to accelerate progress and achieving all key milestones as planned.
Currently, the main construction of the project is substantially complete. Core hydrometallurgical workshops, including those for high nickel matte leaching, ball milling, MHP leaching, raw material storage, and extraction, had their main structures finished in the first half of 2025. The plant buildings are now fully ready. The core equipment--the oxygen pressure leaching autoclave, weighing 149.2 metric tonnes--has been successfully hoisted into place, with equipment installation now transitioning to pipeline connection and commissioning preparations. The nickel cobalt evaporation crystallization workshop has been completed ahead of schedule and is ready for integrated commissioning. Supporting utility infrastructure is progressing simultaneously, with water treatment facilities in the final stages of completion. The project's key power supply facility--the 110kV main step down substation--has been finished and is ready to receive power.
As a key supporting project for Qinzhou's ambitious new energy materials industry, upon commissioning, the project will establish an annual production capacity of 7,000 tonnes of electrowinning nickel and 40,000 tonnes of nickel sulfate. This will help alleviate supply pressure for critical nickel and cobalt raw materials used in China's new energy battery sector.
Written by Cora Ji, jiruyan@mysteel.com
