Iran’s stone export share is half percent of the world market.

The secretary of the Iran Stone Association claimed that the high price of transportation with the increase of production side costs has taken away the power of competition in the international arena from the country’s stone industry to the point where we only have a share of less than half a percent of the world markets. According to Chabak Online, Zeba Yazdani, the secretary of the Iran Stone Association, in a conversation with Chabak Online, stated: If long-term vision or decisions are not made for the stone industry, a good future cannot be imagined for it. Iran’s stone export share of the world market

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Kurdish, because this industry plays an important role in job creation.  He added: “Stone is not a strategic product and the taste of the market determines what kind of stone has customers in the market during a certain period of time, and the planning for use in the stone market is determined by architects and builders, which means that they actually control the market rhythm.” They define  He admitted: The excessive increase in government fees in recent years has caused problems for stone mines, which are mostly small-scale mines, and these problems were made without taking into account the specific characteristics of each stone mine. Yazdani added: the difficult cases of the

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has caused problems, while other countries are producing with the latest technology in the world.  The secretary of the Iran Stone Association said: power outages in industrial towns during the peak of work have caused depreciation for the devices, besides the fact that the stone production process itself also has problems.  He said: It should be noted that the stone that can be transported from the mine to the market is not a raw product, but it has passed about 50% of the production process, which is called a block, stone cup or peak, and processing in factories is the only characteristic. Physical changes it in terms of size and dimensions.  Yazdani continued: All the blocks that are extracted from the mine do not have the ability to export at the same price, and maybe only one block is extracted from each block. Iran’s stone export share of the world market

 have a special color and feature that can be exported.  He said: If we emphasize only on the export of the final processed product and the stone does not have a place in the export, we have actually closed the window of opportunity.  The secretary of the Iran Stone Association said: The machines of stone mines do not work 24 hours a day like other mines, so overhauled machines with a lifespan of more than 5 years can also be used.  According to him, the ministry has no support in the field of importing machinery and this industry uses old equipment to extract stone so that the production cycle does not fall asleep, but there are challenges from mining to the end of the chain, i.e. sales and export.  Yazdani admitted: In the field of export, there is no uniform strategy and directives

Like export duties, it is imposed all at once, so the international customer prefers to supply his needs from stable supply goods, other stone substitute goods or even more reliable countries for large projects.  He claimed that the high price of transportation with the increase in production side costs has reduced the strength of competition in the international arena from the country’s stone industry to the point where we have only less than half a percent of the global markets.  The secretary of the Iran Stone Association said: Although we have a competitive advantage in the field of limestone, countries like Turkey have appropriated the region’s market because they designed the right market supply strategy. @chabokonline Iranian stone association channel @iranstoneassociation

Iran’s stone export share of the world market

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