Four hundred mining companies have signed up for Iran's International Stone Exhibition
Managing Director of Iran International Stone Exhibition: Four hundred domestic and foreign companies have registered to attend the 12th International Iranian Stone Exhibition.
According to Iran Stone Exhibition, Behnam Nikfar, Managing Director of Iran Stone Exhibition, said: "The 12th International Exhibition of Iranian Stone Industry will be held from october 8 to 11 at the permanent site of Iran Stone Exhibition located in Nimar, Mahallat.
He said the exhibitors' registration began earlier this year and welcomed the mining companies to display various quarries from different parts of the country and is expected to open the largest stone quarry this year.
Managing Director of Iran International Stone Exhibition stated: Officials from India, Turkey, China and Italy have promised to attend the 12th International Iranian Stone Exhibition.
Nikfar said: More than 6,000 international businessmen have been identified by the executives of this exhibition and all have been invited.
He said: to introduce processed stones of different factories of Iran six thousand square meters of indoor space is considered that this field is filled.
The director of Iran International Stone Exhibition pointed out that about 5,000 square meters of open space are dedicated for mining machinery and processing equipment, which will increase if needed.
Six separate spaces are projected for the 12th International Stone Exhibition, and so far eighty percent of them have been located by various companies and the registration of domestic and foreign companies continues, Nikfar said.
He added: "Despite the current sanctions and all the pressures on the country's stone industry, the culture of attendance at the fair has grown and companies associated with the stone industry have realized the importance of this presence, and it is hoped that the presence of international businessmen this year. To make more at the exhibition.
Managing Director of Iran International Stone Exhibition continued: Holding of the second stone table in the country and specialized and educational seminars with the presence of prominent professors are other programs of the 12th International Stone Exhibition.
Nikfar said: "The most important priority in this exhibition is to try to increase Iran's stone exports. Although the performance of the Iranian stone industry in the field of production and processing is defensible, there is a poor performance in exporting.
Iran's International Decorative Stone Exhibition is located ten kilometers from Neighborhood Road to Nimar City in an area of ninety square meters. There are seventy active stone mines in Mahallat city with a definite mineral reserve of thirty million tons. Two million tonnes of ornamental raw material are extracted annually from these mines, with more than two percent of the world's building stone and eight percent of the world's travertine being consumed in production sites and in domestic and foreign markets. Two hundred and eighty eighteen million square meters of processing units operate in the neighborhoods, which account for thirteen percent of the country's production.
*IRNA
