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摘要

The last ten years have been a struggle for many of the manufacturing industries in Iran. Glass industry, which is dependent on construction, food & beverage industry and pharmaceutical industry, has stagnated despite all the right ingredients for its healthy growth. However, A sizeable population, a highly trained and cheap workforce, availability of highest quality of raw materials for glass production and most importantly for highly energy intensive industry like ours, one of the cheapest energy/ fuel costs. Two of Iran's immediate neighbors, Iraq and Afghanistan have almost nil glass production and almost 90 % of the total glass demand is met via imports, in which imports from Iran forms a sizable proportion. Besides, these two countries almost all the neighboring countries in greater Middle East and North African region are heavily dependent on import of glass, thus providing an enviable opportunity to Iranian glass producers to exploit this unique advantage provided to them.