Vale Indonesia recently announced that it will cooperate with China's enterprises to build three nickel smelting chain plants or nickel ore refining and processing facilities, with a total investment of approximately US$8.6 billion to US$9 billion, equivalent to 143.5 trillion Indonesian rupiahs.

Vale Indonesia expressed the hope that the downstream processing industry will accelerate development. These three projects include building a chain smelting plant in Pomalaa, Southeast Sulawesi Province, another chain smelting plant in Morowali, Central Sulawesi Province, and the third project to build a chain smelting plant in Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi Province. Currently, these three projects are still under construction.