PT Trimegah Bangun Persada Tbk (NCKL) or Harita Nickel will increase this year.

This is because the construction of the last or third High-Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) smelter line will start operating in August 2024 and be fully operational in October/November 2024.

Head of Investor Relations Harita Nickel, Lukito Gozali said that the second HPAL refinery by the business entity PT Obi Nickel Cobalt (ONC) is in the construction stage. There are 3 MHP production lines with an installed capacity of 65,000 tons of nickel content and 7,500 tons of cobalt content per year.

Lukito explained the progress of the three production lines, for the 1st line, began operating at the end of March 2024 and was fully operational at the end of May 2024.

Line 2 has started operating in June 2024 and is expected to be fully operational in August 2024. The 3rd or last line will start operating in August 2024 and is expected to be fully operational in October/November 2024.

"Because the ONC construction process is carried out in stages, we plan the actual production of MHP at the ONC in 2024 to range from 20,000 to 30,000 tons of nickel content," said Lukito in Kontan, Thursday (11/7).

Lukito added that ONC will be Harita Nickel's second High-Pressure Acid Leach-based (HPAL) refining facility, in addition to Halmahera Persada Lygend (HPL) which has an installed capacity of 55,000 tons of nickel content in MHP per year.

The total installed capacity for the two HPAL refineries (HPL and ONC) by the end of 2024 is 120,000 tons of nickel content in MHP.

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