The behind-schedule Sunrise battery materials complex, in central New South Wales, Australia, will be ready for a final investment decision (FID) by the middle of next year, owner CleanTeQ said on Friday, announcing that the project would transition to a conventional engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) execution approach.
CleanTeQ explained that the project was behind schedule because it had not been able to agree on a number of design, procurement, contracting and project execution matters with contractor Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC).