The Board of Investments (BOI) and the local nickel industry have agreed to advance more local mineral processing to support clean energy technologies and electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing in the country. The BOI recently held Trade and Industry Development (TID) Talks on the Green Metals
Published December 22, 2020, 6:30 AM
The government today launched the Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone (LEIZ) Master Development Plan Project, which is hoped to develop and complete the Philippines copper industry supply chain in Leyte by 2030 and establish the country’s role in modern industries.
The launch of LEIZ Master Plan project was led by the Department of Trade and Industry, Board of Investments, political leaders of Eastern Leyte, National Development Co., and the Palafox & Associates, which is undertaking the masterplan. LEIZ is a proposed development of an estimated 1,000-hectare land in Leyte. It is anchored on the existing copper smelting operation of PASAR (Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining) Corp. located in the Leyte Industrial Development Zone in Isabel, Leyte.