According to the Iran International Stone Exhibition, the name of the Iranian stone industry and the market of some building stones in the world is linked to the name of Lorestan province, so that this province with its rich mines produces twenty-seven percent of the industry in Iran and three percent of the world stone industry. has it.

The lame foot of the stone industry

When it comes to the stone industry, any scholarly work in this field will definitely introduce Lorestan as the holder of one of the largest stone reserves in the world, a province that contains 3% of the world's stone, but still this famous name for the Lorestan table is not water. .

Lorestan, with its treasure trove of building stones, especially decorative stones and facades, is prone to investing in processing all kinds of decorative stones, construction stones and non-metallic mineral materials of the province.

Most of the mines in Lorestan province are dedicated to facade and decorative stones, so that with about one-fourth of the country's decorative stone reserves, it ranks first in this field, and the types of mines in this province can be gypsum, limestone, porcelain, ferro-silica, feldspar, talc, He pointed to the salt and stone of Palon's carcass.

This employment-generating industry suffers a lot, so that regardless of the promotion of this industry, updating the equipment and facilities used in this sector, using the maximum capacity of active quarrying units, environmental pollution and high waste of the stone industry, neglecting Lorestan stone processing and selling raw materials. Another problem has caused the province's stone industry to continue to turn on its heels.

The story of selling raw materials in the stone pole of Iran

The problem of selling raw materials in a place that has three percent of the world's stone has caused about sixty percent of Lorestan stone to be exported raw and at a low price and the added value of this industry to non-natives and foreigners.

The province's raw stone exports, which according to some statistics account for 60% of the province's stone extraction, have led officials to criticize the situation many times, saying that the proceeds from processing and supplying Lorestan's stone go to other provinces.

The need to update the cutting technology

Majid Yarahmadi, a member of the Iranian Stone Association, said in a speech referring to the problems of the province's stone-cutting units: "It is necessary to allocate the necessary facilities to upgrade the equipment of the province's stone-cutting units."

Referring to the job-creating capacity of stone-cutting units in the province, he said: Provincial officials should support local investors to create jobs.

Emphasizing the support for updating the technology of the province's stone-cutting units and preventing the sale of Lorestan stone raw materials, he added: "The sale of raw materials has no added value for us."

"Haft Khan Rostam" for a development project

Referring to the closure of Lorestan stone-cutting units, a member of the Iranian Stone Association said: "Economic sanctions are only 30% effective on stone-cutting units and most of the problems related to the stone industry will be solved in the province."

Yarahmadi, stating that only twenty stone cutting units in the province are for export, added: "Our raw stone is sent from Lorestan to other provinces and then after processing, it is presented to our stone cutting units."

Yarahmadi criticized the Lorestan Industry, Mining and Trade Organization for not supporting the province's stone-cutting units, saying: "In order for someone to get a development plan, he has to go through Haft Khan Rostam."

The promise of the director general of work to follow up the problem of the units

Ali Ashtab, Director General of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of Lorestan, in this regard, stating that one of the issues in the stone industry is the depreciation of equipment and technology of factories, said: Also in the field of stone processing work should be done properly And products in this field do not meet the needs of the market and the customer.

He pointed out that five stone-cutting units in Dorud city have been introduced to the bank to receive equipment upgrade facilities, and said: In the meeting of the Rural Employment Technical Committee, we proposed and approved these five units.

Director General of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare of Lorestan, noting that the problem of almost four of them has been solved and another of them has a file defect, said: "These units have been introduced to the banking system to receive facilities."

Production of units with a capacity of twenty to forty percent

Jamal Momivand, the deputy of Lorestan Industry, Mining and Trade Organization, also stated in this regard that there are four hundred stone cutting units in Lorestan: out of this number, about three hundred and twenty are active, but their activity does not mean 100% production. 

He continued: these units have a capacity of twenty to forty percent.

The deputy director of the Lorestan Industry, Mining and Trade Organization said that many of Lorestan's stone-cutting units are between thirty and forty years old. "The system and lines of our stone-cutting units are not able to compete with today's markets," he said.

Emphasizing that the payment of low-cost facilities for upgrading the equipment and technology of stone-cutting units is a general national issue and not only available to the province, Momivand said: "Units that have not been able to receive these facilities either have past debts or banks and documents." They do not accept them, most of the problems in this regard are due to the banking bureaucracy.

Referring to the payment of loan subsidies to stone-cutting units, he said: "But the units must have the conditions to obtain a loan."

Tax and infrastructure problems, old technology, lack of working capital, mismanagement in the direction of the stone industry, inattention to exports and lack of introduction in global markets and… are among the problems of Lorestan stone industry, an issue that officials have so far decided to solve. The province has not been seen.