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Steel is the key to industrialization in a Third World country.
Iran plans to produce 55 million tons of steel by 2015.
India plans to produce 300 million tons by 2025.
China will produce about 800 million tons of steel in 2013.
Along with this key strategic sector electric power is also essential. Iran will generated around 73 billion Kwt this financial year, so Iran produces enough for her needs, and indeed looks to export some of the power.......BUT must now focus on the other strategic sectors of industry such as steel, heavy engineering, chemicals and electrical sectors.
Iran has an abundance of high quality iron ore, but not many coal fields have been found. Perhaps Iran can undertake joint ventures with Pakistan to develop the Thar coalfields in Pakistan.
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Iran crude steel output hits 3.8mln tons
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view of the Mobarakeh Steel Mill, situated central Iran, 75 kilometers
(46 miles) southwest of the city of Isfahan (file photo)
Presstv.com
The Islamic Republic
of Iran produced 3.833 million tons of steel in the first three months
of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2013), which was
a 1.2 percent rise compared to the same period in the previous year.
Iranian steel smelters also produced 4.055 million tons of steel products in spring 2013. They produced 1.193 million tons of crude steel in the Iranian calendar month of Khordad (May 22-June 21) as well as 1.295 million tons of steel products during the month.
Iran plans to increase its steel output to more than 24 million tons by the end of the Iranian calendar year.
The country’s crude steel production reached 14.89 million tons in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2013).
On June 27, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the Pasargad Steel Mill in the southern province of Fars.
According to its website, the Pasargad Steel Mill aims to produce high-quality steel products in line with the highest international standards.
Iran plans to increase its annual steel output to 55 million tons by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan (March 2010-March 2015).
Iran is reportedly the biggest steel producer in the Middle East and North Africa. The country’s main steel mills are located in Isfahan and Khuzestan provinces.
(Turkey is the biggest producer of steel in the Middle East at 35 million tons)
Iran's major raw steel producers are the Mobarakeh Steel Mill, with approximately 47 percent of the market share, the Khuzestan Steel Company, with about 23 percent of the market share, the Isfahan Iron Smelting Complex, with a market share of 20 percent, and the Iran National Steel Industries Group, with approximately 10 percent of the market share.
Iran's major raw steel producers are the Mobarakeh Steel Mill, with approximately 47 percent of the market share, the Khuzestan Steel Company, with about 23 percent of the market share, the Isfahan Iron Smelting Complex, with a market share of 20 percent, and the Iran National Steel Industries Group, with approximately 10 percent of the market share.
