Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 29/ Trend G.Mehdi/
Iran will boost its petrochemical output by 12 million tons by mid-June next year, ISNA quoted National Iranian Petrochemical Company's managing director Abdolhossein Bayat as saying.
He made the remarks on the sidelines of a ceremony for inaugurating two petrochemical projects, namely Kavian Petrochemical Plant and West Ethylene Pipeline in southern Iranian port city of Assalouyeh.
The Kavian Petrochemical Plant will increase the country's petrochemical production capacity by one million tons to 56.6 million tons, he added.
Domestic manufacturers have provided more than 65 percent of the needed equipments of the plant.
The West Ethylene Pipeline, which extends from Assalouyeh in the south to Kermanshah in the west, will feed 13 petrochemical complexes, he noted.
The pipeline has a transfer capacity of 2.5 million tons per annum and will reduce the current concentration of petrochemical industries from Iran's southern provinces to the country's western region.
In the last Iranian calendar year that ended on March 19, 2012, the country exported $14.2 billion worth of polymer and petrochemical products weighing 18.2 million tons, to over 60 countries.
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