CATL and Partners Break Ground on US$6 Billion Battery Integration Project in Indonesia

• Project spans full battery value chain – from nickel mining and processing to battery materials, battery manufacturing and battery recycling
• It is expected to create 8,000 jobs and generate 35,000 indirect job opportunities by the time it reaches full operation capacity
• This milestone significantly accelerates Indonesia's 2060 carbon neutrality goals

KARAWANG, Indonesia, July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ningbo Contemporary Brunp Lygend Co., Ltd. (CBL), a subsidiary of Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd (Brunp), in partnership with PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTAM) and Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC), officially broke ground on the Indonesia Battery Integration Project on Sunday at the Karawang New Industry City (KNIC) in Indonesia's West Java Province. Brunp is a subsidiary of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL).

Spanning over 2,000 hectares, the Indonesia Battery Integration Project, with a planned investment of nearly USD 6 billion, covers the full battery value chain including nickel mining and processing, battery materials and battery recycling at the FHT Industrial Park of East Halmahera, North Maluku Province, and battery manufacturing in KNIC and Artha Industrial Hill (AIH) of Karawang, West Java Province.

The battery plant in Karawang will deliver an annual capacity of 6.9 GWh in the first phase. By applying CATL's Lighthouse Factory and Extreme Manufacturing experience, the plant will ensure efficient production of high-quality battery cells and modules to accelerate e-mobility and energy transition efforts in Indonesia and the world.

The other key component of the project is the establishment of Indonesia's first renewable energy circular system, with nickel mining and processing, battery materials, and battery recycling operations deployed at the FHT Industrial Park. This landmark project will use state-of-the-art technologies and renewable energy to achieve ultra-low energy consumption, enabling improved cost efficiency, and high-value battery material regeneration with a metal recovery rate of over 95%. Once fully operational, the facility is expected to produce 142,000 tons of nickel and 30,000 tons of cathode materials annually, along with the capacity to process around 20,000 tons of recycled batteries.

This project, the largest initiative of its kind in Southeast Asia, clearly demonstrates Indonesia's dedication to promoting sustainable energy, declared Prabowo Subianto, President of the Republic of Indonesia while attending the ground breaking ceremony in Karawang. He also expressed enthusiasm for partnering with global stakeholders to develop a green battery industry ecosystem.

By vertically integrating the entire battery value chain, the Indonesia Battery Integration Project sets a strong example of green, circular industrial development, establishing a new benchmark in international industry collaboration. It is expected to create 8,000 direct jobs and generate 35,000 indirect job opportunities by the time it reaches full capacity, and it will make significant contribution to Indonesia's 2060 carbon neutrality target.

The ground breaking marks a key milestone in advancing the Indonesia Battery Integration Project, which will further enhance CATL's global footprint, create resilience of raw materials supply, and promote global battery circularity.

KARAWANG, Indonesia, July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ningbo Contemporary Brunp Lygend Co., Ltd. (CBL), a subsidiary of Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd (Brunp), in partnership with PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTAM) and Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC), officially broke ground on the Indonesia Battery Integration Project on Sunday at the Karawang New Industry City (KNIC) in Indonesia's West Java Province. Brunp is a subsidiary of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL).

Spanning over 2,000 hectares, the Indonesia Battery Integration Project, with a planned investment of nearly USD 6 billion, covers the full battery value chain including nickel mining and processing, battery materials and battery recycling at the FHT Industrial Park of East Halmahera, North Maluku Province, and battery manufacturing in KNIC and Artha Industrial Hill (AIH) of Karawang, West Java Province.

The battery plant in Karawang will deliver an annual capacity of 6.9 GWh in the first phase. By applying CATL's Lighthouse Factory and Extreme Manufacturing experience, the plant will ensure efficient production of high-quality battery cells and modules to accelerate e-mobility and energy transition efforts in Indonesia and the world.

The other key component of the project is the establishment of Indonesia's first renewable energy circular system, with nickel mining and processing, battery materials, and battery recycling operations deployed at the FHT Industrial Park. This landmark project will use state-of-the-art technologies and renewable energy to achieve ultra-low energy consumption, enabling improved cost efficiency, and high-value battery material regeneration with a metal recovery rate of over 95%. Once fully operational, the facility is expected to produce 142,000 tons of nickel and 30,000 tons of cathode materials annually, along with the capacity to process around 20,000 tons of recycled batteries.

This project, the largest initiative of its kind in Southeast Asia, clearly demonstrates Indonesia's dedication to promoting sustainable energy, declared Prabowo Subianto, President of the Republic of Indonesia while attending the ground breaking ceremony in Karawang. He also expressed enthusiasm for partnering with global stakeholders to develop a green battery industry ecosystem.

By vertically integrating the entire battery value chain, the Indonesia Battery Integration Project sets a strong example of green, circular industrial development, establishing a new benchmark in international industry collaboration. It is expected to create 8,000 direct jobs and generate 35,000 indirect job opportunities by the time it reaches full capacity, and it will make significant contribution to Indonesia's 2060 carbon neutrality target.

The ground breaking marks a key milestone in advancing the Indonesia Battery Integration Project, which will further enhance CATL's global footprint, create resilience of raw materials supply, and promote global battery circularity.

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CATL and Partners Break Ground on US$6 Billion Battery Integration Project in Indonesia

CATL and Partners Break Ground on US$6 Billion Battery Integration Project in Indonesia

CATL and Partners Break Ground on US$6 Billion Battery Integration Project in Indonesia

LAS VEGAS, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Spatial intelligence company XGRIDS announced that its spatial camera, PortalCam, has been named a winner in four categories at the 2026 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards, announced April 22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. PortalCam received honors in Cameras, Graphics/VFX/Switchers, Intelligent Technology, and Remote/Live Production, becoming the only product in the program's eight-year history to win across four categories in a single year.

Presented by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the NAB Show is widely recognized as one of the world's leading events for broadcast, film, and media technology, bringing together global innovators and production professionals.

Recognition across four production categories—capture, post-production, AI-driven workflows, and live production—reflects the growing role of spatial intelligence technologies across the full content pipeline.

PortalCam combines LiDAR with a multi-camera array to capture real-world environments as photorealistic, measurable 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) models in a single walkthrough. The captured data is processed in XGRIDS' LCC Studio software to produce navigable 3D environments ready for editing, visualization, and deployment into Unreal Engine and Unity.

By enabling real-world locations to become reusable digital assets, PortalCam supports workflows across pre-production, production, and post-production. Location scouting can be performed once and reused remotely by distributed teams, while virtual production workflows operate independently from physical locations. VFX teams can work directly from complete spatial datasets rather than limited 2D footage.

PortalCam and the LCC pipeline are already in use across broadcast and film production. In South Korea, SBS integrated the system into its AIXR Studio to support XR-based live broadcast workflows. For the Cannes-winning film Resurrection, the technology was used for location scouting and virtual set planning, allowing the team to make decisions inside digital replicas of real-world environments. On the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, PortalCam was used to pre-capture shooting environments and project them onto LED volumes, enabling actors to perform against photoreal digital sets and reducing downstream compositing work.

"Winning four awards across four categories reflects a larger transformation underway," said Sunny Liao, Director of Global Sales & Marketing at XGRIDS. "Spatial capture is evolving from a specialized tool into core infrastructure for how digital content is created and used across industries."

About XGRIDS
XGRIDS is building a spatial intelligence platform that bridges the physical and digital worlds, enabling physical environments to become structured spatial data usable across production, simulation, and AI-driven applications.

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XGRIDS, xiangxiang.li@xgrids.com

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XGRIDS PortalCam Becomes First Product to Win Four NAB Product of the Year Awards in a Single Year