TEHRAN – Iran’s cement output amounted to some 5.6 million tons in the first month of the current calendar year
The figure shows 17.6 percent increase in comparison to the same period previous years, IRNA reported.
During the mentioned period nearly 5.6 million tons of clinker was also produced which is 18 percent more than last year’s figure.
Some 126,191 tons of clinker and some 547,163 tons of cement have also been exported during the mentioned time span.
Iran’s total cement and clinker exports faced 3.5 percent increase compared to the same period previous year.
The United States Geological Surveys (USGS) in its new annual report titled “Mineral Commodity Summaries 2011” named Iran as the seventh largest cement producer on the world in 2010.
The USGS is a science organization of the United States government that provides impartial, timely, relevant, and useable information on the issues such as ecosystems, environment, natural hazards and the natural resources.
USGS in its new report stated that in 2010 Iran’s cement production rose up 5 million tons (9%) and reached to 55 million tons. Therefore, Iran became the seventh largest cement producer in the world and the second largest in the Middle East after Turkey. Iran’s cement production in 2009 was 50 million tons.
There are 57 active cement production units in Iran as of 2010. Iran constitutes 1.7% of the world’s cement production according to figures of USGS.
The report shows that China by a far distance is still the largest cement producer in the world, the country produced 1,800 million tons of cement in 2010, which consists 55% of total world production. After China, India is the second largest cement producer in the world by producing 220 million tons in 2010. Among the world major cement producers in 2010, United States was only country whose production decreased.
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