The Iranian Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade has announced that in Q1 2015 cement production reached 15.774 million t and clinker output passed 19.264 million t.
The Ministry also announced that in the same period around 4.34 million t cement was exported abroad.
Iranian Current output capacity in cement is 80 million t a year, which is expected to reach 120 million t in the next 10 years.
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Iran exported some 3.4 million t of cement during the first two months of the current financial year, a 20% y/y increase compared to the same period in 2013.
Iran, the world’s fourth largest cement producer, could overtake US production if the country’s 75 million tpa nominal capacity becomes actual capacity.
