Iran Polymer Highly Attractive
aste Tire Recycling
Tahereh Soleymani, director of commerce at
Gowhar Farayand Khalij Fars Co., said carbon black
had been retained from the recycling of waste tires
as part of efforts to protect the environment. “This
company was established in 2012 and has since
been producing carbon black from recycling waste
tires. The products are processed before being
supplied on the market,” he said. “This product
is used in such industries as textile, polymers,
granules, PVC items, rubber composite, paints and
artificial leather,” he added
Iran Standing in
Mideast
Hossein Pir-Rasoulzadeh, director of
exports at Persian Gulf Petrochemical
Industries Company (PGPIC), told Iran
Petroleum: “We are both a leading
consumer and a big manufacturer.
That is why we have a very big
domestic market as well as solid-based
downstream industries.” “That is why
raw materials and petrochemical
products are transformed into products
of higher value-added, giving Iran a
unique standing in the Middle East,”
he said. “That is while other countries
in the region, due to not having major
downstream industries, have no option
but to export everything they produce.
But in Iran downstream industries have
grown significantly and the domestic
market is much extended too,” said
Pir-Rasoulzadeh. He said PGPIC was the
second largest company in the Middle
East, adding it is among top producers
of petrochemicals in the world. He said
that negotiations were held between
PGPIC and foreign visitors at Iran Plast.
“Compared with last year, visitors were
more specialized,” he added.
70% Exports
Oveis Afzali, director of research and development
at Sirjan Granule Plant, said the company’s products,
mainly compounds, PE100 and P80, attracted visitors
at Iran Plast this year, as was the case in previous
years.Highlighting negotiations held throughout the
exhibition with domestic and foreign visitors, he
said: “Hopefully we had good talks with visitors who
were from East European countries and neighboring
nations, for selling our products.” “More than 70% of
our products are exported to Central Asian nations,
Persian Gulf states, Turkey and some European
countries. I hope that problems related to currency
exchange and high transportation costs would be
settled soon,” said Afzali. He said that his company’s
products were exported at a high rate in this first
half of the current calendar year (started March 21).
Referring to the high quality of polymer and plastic
products manufactured in Iran, Afzali said: “The
relative advantage Iran enjoys in the energy sector
is access to inexpensive feedstock, and the quality of
petrochemical products. That is why foreign buyers
have always been satisfied with Iranian products.”
Afzali said: “We are looking for developing our export
markets. Even if after the enforcement of sanctions
conditions become difficult, we will not stop
developing our export markets.
Knowledge-Based Companies
Products
Knowledge-based companies were among exhibitors of "Iran Plast". All
of them were taking part in the exhibition with new products. Visitors had
expressed willingness to cooperate with them. Some of them expressed
hope to be able to strike contracts for the marketing of their products after
the exhibition concludes. Mehdi Shabankareh, CEO of knowledge-based
Nano Paspar Fakour, said his company had already registered 33 patents,
some of which had no foreign prototypes. He said that some products like
white nanomasterbatch and computabilizers were being produced for
the first time in Iran. Domestic manufacturing of such products, he said,
had cut their price by three-fourths in Iran. “In the run-up to Iran Plast, we
had started negotiations with petrochemical companies. We hope to soon
reach the stage of commercialization of some of our products,” he said.
“This year, we unveiled 14 knowledge-based products for the first time,”
said Shabankareh. “Since the domestic market for petrochemical products
is very extensive we are not worried with the sales of our products and
our focus is mainly on domestic sales. However, foreign companies may
also use our products via their Iranian partners,” he added. “We expected
this year’s exhibition to receive fewer visitors, but their number has so
far been beyond our expectation,” said Shabankareh. “More than 90% of
foreign visitors were from India. Some of them offered cooperation for
joint production in India. We are studying their proposals.”