Iran cement production rises 8% YoY

Production hits 66.4 mm tons for the Persian year ended in March.[$]

{reg}[PAID={"id":"1,2,3,4,5","title":"The content you tried to access is only available to paid subscribers.","link":"1"}]Iran says its cement industry produced over 66.4 million tons of cement in the year ended March 19, showing an 8% rise compared with the previous year, IRNA news agency reported.

The output in the last calendar month stood at 5.7 million tons. Iran also produced some 67.6 million tons of clinker last year, up 12 percent year on year.

The Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mehdi Ghazanfari announced that the countrys current cement production capacity stands at 74 million tons. Ghazanfari added that the figure will reach 110 million tons by 2015, the report said./reg}