The country's stone industry faces problems with processing and manpower
Head of Iranian Stone Association: In the country's stone industry, we face two problems of manpower and processing.
Abolghasem Shafiei said Tuesday at the inaugural ceremony of the 12th International Iranian Stone Exhibition in Mahalat: Opposition to increased value added in the stone industry is contrary to the country's national values.
He added: "The crude principle of stone sales is not offended, and of course it is important to look at the extent to which we see stocks, productivity and technology changes."
The head of the Iranian Stone Association said last year there were tens of 1.5 million tons of Iranian stone export, with one million tons exported in block. Unfortunately, despite the fifty-seven percent of construction, there is a lack of demand in the stone market.
Shafiei said: There are some best quarrying factories in the central province, but the processing and exporting issues of stone are different than those of stone quarrying. Unfortunately we have problems in manpower and processing.
He said that in the 9th and 10th governments for six hundred stone mills the government imported machinery from the IMF and the average capacity of these machines was two hundred thousand square meters but during these years ten thousand square meters of stone processing and exporting it. Failed.
Shafiei said: "The major export of the stone to the Iraqi market is a loss for us, a stone that is forty to fifty thousand tomans, and at this price we cannot afford to cut it." This is an indication that other countries' markets need to be purchased to buy quality stones from Iran. That is why we did not send in international stone markets, of course we export to a number of countries such as Belgium but are limited.
Head of Iranian Stone Association stated: From one million eight hundred and ninety nine thousand tons of stone exported in the last year and a half to eighteen thousand and twenty thousand tons of toll and thus twenty years efforts of stone industry activists in forty-three The country of the world has failed.
Shafiei said: "Given the boycott of stone activists, they are working to preserve the industry, and the Iranian Stone Association is seeking value added and processing to see the development of the stone industry improve."
