According to International reports in 2012 Islamic Republic of Iran with 331 Billion $ GDP in the world ranking was in 32 position. The division of GDP for different sectors was 46% for services, %18 Oil, 25% Mine & Industry and 11% belong to agriculture sector.
casting of Metals has a very old history that goes to 5000 years B.C but industrial foundry Production Started From 1953 in Iran.
In 2012 statistics and estimations of experts shows that foundry production in Iran with a decrease was about 540,000tons with a turn over near 1.2 billion $ that was 1.45 percent of GDP for industrial sector. Comparing with foundry production of 37 countries (46th census of world castingproduction – 2012 Modern casting) Iran foundry will have 18 position, 0.58% of world production.
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foundry Production |
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YEAR / Alloy |
Grey |
Ductile |
Malleable |
Alloy iron |
Al |
Copper Base |
Total |
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1993 |
194,823 |
63,072 |
4,240 |
11,778 |
15,701 |
17,289 |
17,489 |
1883 |
326,373 |
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2010 |
395,000 |
180,000 |
- |
30,000 |
68,000 |
52,000 |
39,000 |
12,000 |
780,000 |
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2011 |
370,000 |
150,000 |
- |
32,000 |
65,000 |
55,000 |
36,000 |
10,000 |
718,000 |
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2012 |
230,000 |
120,000 |
- |
35,000 |
70,000 |
40,000 |
30,000 |
15,000 |
540,000 |
More than 1250 foundries are active in production Ferrous and non-Ferrous Alloys, more than 80% of production is produced in large and medium and 20% Small foundries. Large foundries have annual capacity from 15 to 80,000 tons and small size less than 500 tons.
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There is a growing home market for casting demand in different sectors. |
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Some Important Sectors |
2012 |
Vision 2025 |
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1- |
Car & Auto Industry |
0.95 M. units |
3 M. units |
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2- |
20 M. tons |
60 M. tons |
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3- |
0.35 M. tons |
1 M. tons |
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4- |
0.4 M. tons |
1 M. tons |
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5- |
Cement |
70 M. tons |
130 M. tons |
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6- |
Mine (Cu , Fe , Pb, Zn , …) |
180 M tons |
250 M. tons |
In addition many project for development in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Mine, Water & Energy, Road & Railway new cities and renovating old structures of large cities are part of a hopeful scope for home market.
foundry & Export
Advantages and apportunities for foundry are divided in two categories that can be explained in two triangles. One in Energy, Labour and raw material and the second is Market, Distance and Technology.
Now the price of Energy has been rised during Last year but still there will be a compatible and cheap source remain for Energy and it is Natural Gas.
raw material is also an advantage for foundry Industry in Iran because of big sand resources of metallic mines and Ferro-Alloys Production. (Ferro-Si, Ferro-Cr, Ferro-Mn, Ferro-Mo)
The cost of labour is not high and No. of educated students from universities are enough for new plants.
There is also a huge market in Iraq, Afghanistan, CIS’, North and central Africa that are not far from Iran so expantion of Industrial-Exports will drive foundry Industries.
For example base price for grey cast iron is 0.8 Euro/Kg and ductile iron 1.1 and Last prices for Gas & Electricity in Industry are 0.1 Euro/m3 & 0.05 Euro/kw and 1 to 2 Euro/kg for carbon steel to high alloyed castingsteel parts.
