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Engineering over 11% of Iran's service export

Business Materials 9 February 2015 15:07 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 9

By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:

Iran's Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Mohsen Salehinia has said that the country's engineering service export hit $1.1 billion in the first ten months of the current Iranian year (starting Mar. 21), IRIB news agency reports Feb. 9.

"During this period we exported worth $9.7 billion of service, of which $1.1 billion was in the form of engineering services,| he pointed out.

Iran exported over $1.62 billion worth of technical and engineering services in the first ten months of the past Iranian calendar year which began on March 21, 2013.

"There are 87 thousand active production units in the country. Of that, 80 thousand are small, 4 thousand are middle, and 3 thousand are considered big production units," Salehinia added.

He further said that the country has experienced 12 percent growth in petrochemical, 41 percent in acrylic fibers, 7 percent in industrial carpet, 23 percent in TV and LCD, 35 percent in refrigerators, and 15 percent in washing machine production in the ten-month period compared to the same period the previous year.

According to the official, in the same time span Iran also saw 7 percent growth in crude steel, 9 percent in drug, 4 percent in cement, and 5 percent in aluminum production compared to the same period last year.

There are Iranian companies in over 20 countries from Asia to Africa and Latin America, carrying out projects in oil and gas, water treatment, petrochemicals, roads, electricity, housing and car manufacturing.

Edited by CN

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