New Development in The Iranian Steel Industry

摘要

National Iranian Steel Company's profile shows that almost three decades ago (1971) the first steel making plant, based on a package deal between the then government of Iran and former Soviet Union, with annual capacity of 550,000 tons of crude steel was installed, and after the first expansion project, the capacity of the plant reached 1,900,000 million tons per year. Technology used in the plant was furnace process.The country's second steel plant started around 26 years ago in khuzestan province (Ahwas) to produce annually 550.000 tons of crude steel This plant's production technology, due to sufficient availability of natural gas in the region, was of natural gas in the region, was DRI process, which directly reduced iron ore to sponge iron, and afterward the sponge iron was smelt in 8 EAF and was converted into crude steel.