Iran Produces over 89,000 Tons of Aluminum Ingot in 3 Months
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade announced that in the first quarter of the current Iranian year, which started on March 21, 89,400 tons of aluminum ingots have been produced in the country.
In a report, the ministry said that in the spring season, 62,700 tons of alumina powder were also produced.
Aluminum ingot production topped one million tons in the first three years of the Fifth 5-Year Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), showing an increase of 37 percent compared with the same period in the Fourth Development Plan (2005-2009), the ministry added.
Also, Iran’s aluminum ingot production in the years of 2011 to 2013 stood at 318,000, 337,000 and 350,000 tons, respectively.
Iran’s aluminum production is planned to hit 1.5 million tons by the end of the country’s 20-Year Vision Plan (March 2025).
Iran plans to become the world’s 14th leading aluminum producer by the end of the Fifth 5-Year Economic Development Plan, which ends in 2015.