Necessity to pay attention to the capacity of the mines of Mahallat city
Head of Mahaleh County Stone Association: Limited access to international banks and the inability to transfer money from other countries into the country is a problem in the area of stone.
According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, Hossein Soroush said that the nuclear deal and the post-economic sanctions provide an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen and complement the domestic production chain and export boom and must be motivated by efficient programs for greater production and investment security. Accelerate the neighborhood stone industry.
He added that limited access to international banks and the inability to transfer money from other countries into the country is one of the problems in the field of stone, which requires shortcomings in this sector in order to contribute to the export of the stone industry and achieve economic goals. Resist the resistance.
He said: With the entry of the country into the post-sanctions era, the necessary conditions for establishing contacts with international businessmen and businessmen have been provided and this should be done through effective study and expertise.
Soroush continued: Mahalat stone industry was facing serious challenges during the sanctions era due to construction decline and export decline and thirty-five percent of the stone and decorative processing workshops of this city and the rest of the workshops were fifty. Capacity percentages were active.
The head of the Mahalat City Stone Workers Association said: "Each Mahalah Stone Workshop has provided on average fifteen employment opportunities and with the boom in production and exports this employment will increase to twenty.
Soroush said the travertine's white stone mines have been estimated at 20 million tonnes in the neighborhood of which 2.5 million tonnes are extracted annually.
He explained that four million tonnes of crude stone equivalent to twelve million square meters is produced annually in three hundred stone units of Mahalat.
Mahalat city, south of the central province of Antarctica, is the country's rock production site.
* IRNA