Iran's aluminum production surpasses 220,000 tons in nine months

Iran produced approximately 222,000 tons of aluminum ingot in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20- November 20, 2016).

Head of the Board of Directors of Aluminum Industries Syndicate, Houshang Goudarzi, said that the figure showed 2,000 tons more production than the target set for the said period.

"A sum of 188,956 tons of alumina powder, 112,708 tons of lime, and 321,225 tons of aluminum hydrate were produced in the country in over past nine months," Goudarzi added.

Iran is among the tenth mineral-rich countries worldwide, and is resolved not to send its raw materials abroad, instead, it has planned to process the country's minerals to earn more profit from their exports.

In a relevant development in March 2015, Iranian investors and a Chinese company agreed on the construction of a large aluminum complex in the southern province of Fars.

EA