Stone Society, one hundred percent supportive of process and value added
President of the Iranian Rock Association: The Rock Association is one hundred percent supportive of value added processing and creation, but does not condone raw selling, which does not mean that those who hold such a belief do not have national fanaticism.
Abolghasem Shafiei, inaugurating the 12th International Stone Exhibition in Iran, said that opposing the increase in value added in the stone industry was against the wisdom and values of the country. Considered the amount of technology reserves, productivity, and changes.
He said that the production of 15 million tons of stone in the country, compared to previous years, because the production of stone in the year 5 in the country was ten and a half million tons, said: Most of the country stone and even stone neighborhoods with warehouses and factories full of The rocks are facing, and these are the result of a fifty-seven percent decline in the building and construction industry, which has forced demand into the market.
Shafi'i, referring to the field of stone processing, added: "Fortunately, in the central province and neighborhoods, the best stone mills have been established with the Italian production line and the best brands, but the question is how many of these factories have succeeded in exporting the stone? The process of exporting processed stone is very different from that of exporting stone.
"Technology and machinery have entered the country, but we are having trouble discussing manpower and final processing," he said. Since the seventh and eighth administrations, nearly six hundred stone-crushing machines have entered the country through foreign exchange reserves, the average capacity of these machines being two hundred thousand square meters of stone processing, but during these years even 10,000 square meters of processed stone have been produced and produced. Export failed.
The head of the Iranian Stone Association, saying that the bulk of our current export to the Iraqi market is actually causing us damage, said the stone will be purchased by Iraqis at a price of forty to fifty thousand tomans, and while cutting costs will not be met. These cases indicate that this market comes to Iran for the purchase of low quality stones and in fact Iran has not exported to international standard consumption markets or export has been very limited.
He stated that in the raw material discussion, for example, smelting has been set as the benchmark for determining iron ore: There is no expert leaf in the Ministry of Health to show that this action has been positive for the stone field.
Shafi'i said: "This was done during the 9th and 10th government and we suffered losses, exactly 990,000 tons of stone was exported annually. This amounted to 500,000 tonnes of toll. The market for the Turks was practically opened and the twenty-year run of the country's stone industry activists in forty-three countries was null and void. In fact, these effects were confiscation of the assets and labor of the activists in this area.
He said that Turkish companies are opening up the world market and have made it easier for them to receive LCs, which facilitates the process of supplying raw materials and exports. And when sanctions are added to the problem, no common sense can afford these costs.
Shafiei emphasized: Under the current sanctions, activists have been trying to get a dollar into the country and have maintained the industry. The Stone Society is one hundred percent supportive of value added processing and creation, but does not condone raw selling, which does not mean that those who hold such a belief do not have national zeal.
He criticized audio-visual performance in the country's stone industry: Over the past one and a half years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has banned the entry of cut stone, but one report found that a worker at a stone-cutting workshop had been banned. The Iranian ore is shipped to China for cutting and we have purchased it four times the price after returning the cut stone.
The head of the Iranian Stone Association stated: "As a president of the Iranian Stone Society, I have been in this position for three years and have been exhibiting in forty-five countries and have interviewed not one stone worker in an unknown stone unit. On the other hand, they say that the Chinese buy the stone for forty dollars and turn it into 3,600 dollars. Are we ignorant enough to plunder the nation's property? The Chinese would throw their hats into the sky if they could get $ 50 a ton from Iran. Unfortunately, the broadcast of these programs is a sign of public concern.
Shafi'i also said: Some media experts even suggest that there are ships in the Persian Gulf that catch the stone, cut it there and return it to the country, while not only in the Persian Gulf but also on Earth. . A sixty-foot saw and its foundations weigh two hundred tons. How can a stone-cutter be made on the sea? There should be no action that does not bring the same amount of foreign exchange due to export.
