Export of fifty million dollars of stone from Central Province
Chairman of the Board of Governors of Mahalat County: The stone export from Mahalat and Markazi provinces is over $ 50 million in processing.
According to Iran's International Stone Exhibition, Hossein Soroush, secretary of the Iranian Stone Association and chairman of the board of directors of Mahaleh Sangh Association, said: "In the field of stone, we have 15 percent capacity in the processing and export sector of Mahaleh city and stone export from Mahaleh city and the Central Province. Over fifty million dollars in processing.
Soroush added: Of the country's thirty-three million square meters of ornamental stone processing capacity, eighteen million square meters are available in Mahalat, the most advanced production line in the country.
He pointed out that 60 percent of Iranian travertine stone is produced in Mahallat city.
The chairman of the board of directors of Mahallat City Stone Association said that the main market for travertine is North American, Canadian, US and part of Europe. It is done through Turkey.
"The regional and Iraqi markets are the CIS countries that buy our bulk of our exports, but they do not buy high quality products," he said. To be offered on the world market and be more value-added.
Soroush explained: We have a brand called Golden Black, which has a very high stock of neighborhoods and is black stone. For example, the stone sells for $ 60 per square meter in the Australian market, but in the neighborhood of 50,000 Tomans, either in Kazakhstan or Iraq, for a maximum of ten dollars, and this brand has a place to work and we In this respect we have a missing link in the marketing debate.
He said that the stone district of the neighborhood has the ability to be present in the world markets but unfortunately for some reason has lost its validity stated: in the mining, stone and decorative mines in the central province one of the most desirable mines in the country and The world is in the form of several world-class brand mines.
The chairman of the board of directors of the city's Association of Stone Miners said that the lack of modern technology and investment in this area is due to the lack of modern technology and investment in the mining sector does not mean that the hope of the government will not be realized in time and everything in It has been and will be the promise. This sector needs to attract investment and foreign capital and bring a new spirit to the sector.
He stated that one million and seven hundred thousand tons of the country's fourteen million tons of ore are extracted in Mahallat city: Given the waste of forty to sixty percent of the mines, at the very least we will realize that due to the lack of sufficient capital to improve the methods of extracting the mines and our God-given reserves that took millions of years to build. Wasted.
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