Innovation

The Force Behind Research and Development Is Sustainable Performance

The scope is to design future metals, manufacture at a fast and efficient scale, and develop new products and services in response to actual and future needs. Halmahera Resources' research teams develop solutions that add value both internally and externally, from the mine to the end product.

Optimizing Industrial Processes

How can the mining and metals sector be altered to meet the demands of the twenty-first century? We are constantly working to improve our extraction, development, and transformation processes in response to this reoccurring theme and to maintain our competitiveness and agility through:

• Improving the metal recycling procedures;
• Transforming the industrial processes to reduce energy consumption and emissions;
• Developing new technologies to address upcoming issues, particularly energy.

Creating a Path to the Future

Our goal is to strengthen our positions in future markets. In addition, we want to find solutions for the future digital and renewable energy businesses.

• Research into the recycling of a variety of metals and their mineral counterparts, including the highly valued lanthanide series of rare earths.
• Working with our customers to develop innovative products such as new steel grades, superalloys, and special steels.
• Work in future-oriented industries including nickel, lithium, and powder metallurgy.
• Processed materials, such as lithium and nickel-cadmium, are being researched for recycling.

With the goal of boosting industrialization potential at the group's facilities as well as with our customers and partners, we put value creation at the center of our innovative approach. It is a requirement for contributing to the transformation of the mining and metallurgical industries and enabling them to tackle the century's significant challenges.

Protecting People and Preserving Natural Balances

Every day, our teams strive to meet a triple commitment: to protect the health of employees and populations, ensure facility safety, and minimize environmental consequences.

• Enhanced medical supervision for workers exposed to any sort of risk.
• Continuous examination of industrial risks, with routine adjustments.
• Upgrading risk analyses for developing processes.
• Under the notion of circular economy cycles, reducing our environmental impact is interwoven into all of our activities, as is employing industrial processes to utilize materials and generate value from waste.

Sharing a Culture of Open Innovation

When people work together, they can accomplish more progress in less time. The agile technique of creating value that we use at every level and that is backed by our open innovation strategy is summarized through:

• Collaborations with a variety of research institutions.
• Collaboration with renowned institutions to establish joint laboratories.
• Taking part in projects initiated by external competitiveness clusters as well as important research programs.

Taking the Position of a Center of Excellence

Our innovation center dedicated to extractive metallurgy and recycling, Halmahera Resources Concepts, brings together distinct areas of expertise. This new initiative has been approved for funding, and implementation is ongoing.

• We work with groups of technicians, engineers, project managers, technology specialists, and experts in mineral development and enrichment, metal alloys and composite materials research, recycling, and other sectors.
• We have at our disposal ultra-advanced observation instruments, advanced laboratory equipment for discontinuous metallurgical tests, and pilot and semi-industrial facilities for long-term testing campaigns.
• From the conception of programs through the execution of innovations, research teams collaborate closely with line workers.