Azerbaijan, Baku, Sep.2/ Trend, R. Zamanov
Iran's aluminum ingot output stood at 149,307 tons in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, the IRNA News Agency reported.
The amount shows a 7 per cent increase in comparison to the same period of the previous year.
Some 29,760 tons of aluminium ingot were produced in Iran during the fifth calendar month (July 22 - August 21), which is 9 per cent more than the previous year.
It was previously announced that Iran plans to increase its annual aluminium ingot production capacity up to 910,000 tons by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (March 2016).
According to Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Vajihollah Ja'fari, Iran's current per capita consumption of aluminum stands at 4.5 kilogram, while per capita aluminum consumption worldwide now stands at 6.5 kilograms.
The official highlighted that Iran's ranking in production of aluminum has risen four steps since 2005 to stand at number 22 in the world aluminum output.
Ja'fari stressed that Iran plans to book the 14th rank in the global aluminum production by the end of the 5th Economic Development Plan (2010-2015).