Stone industry is one of the export advantages

Stone industry is one of the export advantages
  • 2019-07-28
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Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce: The stone industry is one of the advantages of our country and we must move forward in its export. We have had meetings with the Stone Society and will continue to use the capacity of the organizations to address their problems.

According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, the opening of the second access road to Shamsabad Industrial City and the opening of the industrial unit of Asemaneh De Mordad Steel Structures Co. was attended by Reza Rahmani, Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade.

Rahmani went to Shamsabad Industrial City last Wednesday and opened several operational projects and visited several industrial units among industry workers, producers and reporters and answered their questions.

Opening of two projects in Shamsabad

 The Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade began the implementation of the project to build a second access road to the industrial town. The purpose of this project is to facilitate the access of artisans and workers to and from Shamsabad industrial town. The employer of this project is Tehran Industrial Estates Company, with a credit of 21 billion Rials.

This project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation by February of this year. During this visit, Rahmani also opened the Asemaneh Steel Structures Company. The unit has a total investment of 500 billion riyals, which has created direct employment for 100 people.

The Minister of Industry, Mines and Commerce visited the production facility after executing the project for the construction of a second access road to Shamsabad Industrial City, presenting at the Crystal World Factory in this large industrial town.

The Crystal World is the largest crystal producer in the Middle East, exporting its manufactured products to other countries in addition to domestic consumption. Visiting the production process at the Venus Glass production unit was the next program of the Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce in Shamsabad Industrial City.

Forty percent of facilities should be allocated to the industry

The Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce, in a meeting with Shamsabad industrialists and producers, said: "Most of the problems of the country 's craftsmen and producers have nothing to do with sanctions. The views of the various entities must be changed to facilitate the production and business environment. Some of the problems for manufacturers are due to the lack of proper understanding of the subject matter, and the perspective of those in the relevant institutions needs to be changed.

Rahmani also said about providing more facilities to the craftsmen: According to the law, at least 40% of the country's facilities should be allocated to the country's industrial sector, but the Central Bank allocated only twenty-seven percent of the country's credit to the industrial sector in 2007, seventy percent of which. It has also been about extending the facilities of production units.

Rahmani went on to emphasize that operating banks, especially the Bank of Industry and Mining, should provide manufacturers with a special facility and refrain from enforcing many administrative bureaucracies and obstructive laws.

He said that Shamsabad as the largest industrial city in the country in terms of size, number of units and the number of jobs created, said: "We have been in the new form of war sanctions for 14 months and the resistance of producers and craftsmen during this time is admirable. have been.

The Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade said: "Of course, some issues such as water and electricity infrastructure can be solved with planning and consultation that need to be pursued."

Rahmani also called on the media and broadcasters to show people the good capabilities that exist in manufacturing units and the field of production.

He added: "The business environment should be facilitated and improved in favor of production boom."

In another part of his speech, stating that the director of Tehran Industrial Estates Company is a jihadist and persistent director, he said: Tehran's provincial city management should take the use of the water and metro pipeline for Shamsabad Industrial Estate seriously and pursue it. 

We follow the problems of the stone industry

The Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade pointed out that today's situation requires the support of production units to create employment for our youth, adding: Employment in Shamsabad can be increased to 100,000 if supported.

Rahmani also stated that the Islamic Consultative Assembly would pursue the issue of enjoying industrial value added towns to provide the infrastructure needed for their development.

He said that industrial towns should be among the most beautiful industrial and urban areas of the country and the location of economy and production alongside modern green space.

Rahmani added in another part: The stone industry is one of the advantages of our country and we need to move forward in exporting it. We have had meetings with the Stone Society and will continue to use the capacity of the organizations to address their problems.

We stop the grocery store

The minister of industry, mines and commerce, saying that if exports are negative in the field of mining is not a bad thing, he added: "It means that we have stopped the sale of minerals for added value internally."

Referring to the decline in imports by about two and a half percent last year, Rahmani said: "We ban imports of any commodity that is manufactured domestically, banning 1339 imports last year, and this year's list is one hundred and forty-eight." We added.

"We expect all institutions to look at the present state of industry and production with a view beyond normal conditions," he said.

The official said that with the increase in production there would be a direct and indirect increase in government revenues. Be it.

Rahmani pointed out that public opinion should be created to support and pay attention to the industry sector among the public and all stakeholders.

In another part of his speech, the Minister of Industry, Mining and Commerce, referring to the problems posed by the value added law for the country's producers, said: "If VAT is levied on many economically distressed units with a one- or two-year delay, many problems Units eliminate and employ many young people.

Rahmani added that the share of industrial estates from value added tax should be well paid to spend on the infrastructure of these settlements.