Over 4,500,000 tons of cement and clinker were exported in the first five months of the current Iranian year (started March 21), it was announced here on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in Kashan, secretary of Cement Industry Employers Association affiliated to Iran national cement industry said the figure indicates a 13.5 percent increase compared to the corresponding period last year.
Mohammad Hossein Pour-Khalil added that the value of the exported cement stood at dlrs 335 million, expressing hope that the figure could hit one billion dollars by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2012).
'Over 60 percent of the cement produced in Iran was exported to Iraq, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Persian Gulf littoral states,' he said.
The official hoped that the country's cement export could reach 10 million tons by the end of this year.
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