In the afternoon of October 25, Central Indonesia time, as the first batch of laterite nickel ores entered the feeder through the belt conveyor, the first nickel ice production line of Zhongwei Morovali Industrial Base in Indonesia was officially put into production. After being dried by Pengfei drying kiln, calcined by Pengfei rotary kiln, and smelted by oxygen enriched side blowing furnace, the nickel ice was finally successfully produced, marking the success of Zhongwei's first industrialized application of oxygen enriched side blowing furnace process (OESBF) to smelting laterite nickel ores in the world, Achieve a new breakthrough in the world smelting technology project and create a new technical route for laterite nickel ore smelting.
Zhongwei Morovali Industrial Base in Indonesia is the first production line of OESBF, with an annual output of 10000 metal tons of nickel, and the overall planning is 60000 tons. The commissioning, optimization, climbing and full production of each production line will further enhance the company's independent guarantee capability in the resource side. At the same time, it also announced that Zhongwei's first overseas industrial base was officially put into operation, which opened up a new technological path from laterite nickel ore to battery grade nickel raw materials, built a new channel from the resource end to the new energy industry, made another breakthrough in "technological innovation", and made significant achievements in the internationalization stage.
On September 2, 2021, Zhongwei Morovali Industrial Base in Indonesia laid the first stake and entered the acceleration period of project construction. During the tense construction of about a year, Zhongwei people in Indonesia have constantly played the spirit of striving, fighting hard and fearing no difficulties, overcome many difficulties such as the impact of the epidemic, personnel tension, language barriers and harsh environment, fully mobilized the resources and enthusiasm of all parties, cooperated with the construction personnel, and rapidly promoted the project construction with high standards and quality, creating a new precedent for Zhongwei overseas projects, It has become a model for the construction of Zhongwei's international industrial base.
The development of the industry relies on independent innovation. As a pioneer of "technological innovation", Zhongwei has also chosen a different way from other enterprises in the industry in terms of the technological route of laterite nickel ore smelting. It has innovatively adopted the oxygen enriched side blowing furnace process, which originated from the Vanukov furnace in the 1960s, and has been used in copper, lead, nickel sulfide ore smelting and other fields after improvement and transformation, This is the first time that this process has been industrialized in the world for the preparation of nickel ice from laterite nickel ore, so that this smelting process will once again glow with new vitality and achieve better integration of resources and new energy industry, which will have a positive and extensive impact on the development of the world smelting industry and new energy industry.
The innovative industrial application of this process is expected to greatly improve the economic, social and environmental benefits of the project. According to the calculation, the oxygen enriched side blowing furnace process industrial production line put into operation this time will achieve better resource technology matching, shorter construction period and higher comprehensive resource utilization. At the same time, there is no "heat electricity heat" conversion process in this technology process, which will significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions, achieve environment-friendly clean production, and promote better integration and development of resources and new energy industries.
As the world's leading comprehensive service provider of new energy materials, Zhongwei always adheres to the development concept of "technology driven" and constantly improves its technological innovation capability. The adoption of this new process further demonstrates Zhongwei's strong technical strength and technical reserves in the new energy materials industry chain. In the future, Zhongwei will continue to optimize OESBF process, continuously improve equipment efficiency and process output efficiency, and strive to complete the ramp up of production capacity as soon as possible, Achieve full production capacity.
In recent years, Zhongwei has been accelerating the implementation of the development strategy of "technology diversification, layout globalization, green low-carbon, and industrial integration". The customer's comprehensive service ability, market competitiveness, and industrial technology level have been continuously improved, and the company has accelerated its progress towards the goal of "the most valuable new energy materials comprehensive service provider in the world".
