Abolghasem Shafi'i criticism of IRIB
President of the Iranian Stone Association: Voice of Iran must question and interview the president of the Iranian Stone Association, who has been exhibiting in forty-five countries, for three years, not one stone worker in an anonymous stone unit saying: The Chinese buy the stone for forty dollars and turn it into 3,600 dollars, and are we foolish enough to plunder the nation's property?
Abolghasem Shafiei said on Tuesday at the inaugural ceremony of the 12th International Stone Exhibition: "The best stone mills with equipment imported from Italy are active nationwide, but have faced a market downturn and now stockpiles of stone." They have cut out that they are not in demand.
He said that the best technology and equipment of the day came in the field of stone processing and the stone factories were equipped with up-to-date equipment. There is a serious problem in the skilled manpower and final processing of the stone.
The chairman of the board of directors of the Iranian Stone Association said that the export of raw materials depends on the amount of mineral storage, technology changes and factories' productivity.
Shafi'i stated that there are sufficient reserves of rock in the country, adding that currently there are about 4 billion tons of stone reserves and the consumption of stone inside the country is ten and a half million tons annually, of which one million tons is exported.
"Absolute crude sales are not banished," he said. "And what is to be seen is the country's reserves, productivity, technological changes that are key factors in decision-making in the field of stone."
Shafi'i added: Six hundred stone mills since the Reformation government have so far been equipped with state-of-the-art currency reserves equipped with advanced machinery, with an average production capacity of two hundred thousand square meters, while ten thousand square meters are not exported. Be.
He said: The major export to the Iraqi market is the damage to the stone industry because every meter of stone is supplied to the Iraqi market of 400 to 500 thousand Rials and Iraq imports low quality stones.
The head of the board of directors of the Iranian Stone Association said that Iran offers limited product to international standard stone consumption markets.
Shafiei said the stone association is 100 percent in favor of stone processing, but the effects of stone processing have limited exports.
He added: Export duties not only did not increase the export of processed stone, but also caused the closure of stone mines.
The head of the Iranian Stone Association said that the export of stone reached eight hundred and forty thousand tons in the eighty-eight year and after the effect of seventy percent on the export of crude stone in the year 2, the amount of crude stone export reduced to 500,000 tons.
Shafiei added that the export effects on the stone industry caused the export markets to lose, and this created opportunities for rival countries such as Turkey, and Iran lost export opportunities.
Shafi'i continued: Export tariffs create losses for the country's stone industry that require officials to think carefully.
He claimed: For a year and a half, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had banned the entry of cut stone, but a media report showed that in one of the stone workshops a worker announced that the Iranian ore had been shipped to China and then Since returning the cut stone to the country we have bought it at four times the price.
The head of the Iranian Stone Association said: "I have to question and interview the president of the Iranian Stone Association, who has been exhibiting in forty-five countries, for three years, and not one stone worker in an unnamed stone unit. The Chinese buy the stone for forty dollars and turn it into 3,600 dollars, and are we foolish enough to plunder the nation's property?
He emphasized: "If the Chinese can buy fifty dollars a ton of rock from Iran, they will throw their hats into the sky, and unfortunately, broadcasting such programs is a source of concern to the public."
Shafi'i also said: Some media experts even suggest that there are ships in the Persian Gulf that pick up the stone, cut it there and return it to the country, while not only in the Persian Gulf but also on the planet. A sixty-foot saw and its foundations weigh two hundred tons. How can a stone-cutter be made on the sea?
* IRNA
