JAKARTA/SYDNEY: China's Tsingshan Group expects to start production at its Indonesian nickel pig iron smelter as soon as January, becoming the second plant to ramp up since the country's new mineral processing laws came into force at the start of the year.
"Hopefully by October or November we will have started commissioning," said Slamet Panggabean, finance manger of Tsingshan's local joint venture partner Bintang Delapan Mineral, referring to the firm's pilot smelter project in Morowali on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.