TEHRAN – Some 897 idle and semi-active production units have been revived in the country’s industrial parks in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-December 21, 2023), Mehr News Agency reported.

As reported, 1,240 new units have also been established in the country’s industrial parks and zones in the mentioned nine months.

The establishment and reviving of the mentioned units have created jobs for over 336,000 people across the country.

According to the Industry, Mining, and Trade Ministry’s latest statistics, more than 59,000 industrial units are active in the industrial parks and zones of the country, which have created jobs for about 1.3 million people.

Over the past few years, many of the production units across Iran have been wrestling with financial issues as well as the problem of supplying their raw materials, so that, many have been forced to shut down or decrease their activities.

The Industry Ministry’s program for revving such units has tried to identify major problems and issues that the production units are facing to bring them back into the production cycle by resolving such problems.

Back in November 2023, Industry, Mining, and Trade Minister Abbas Ali-Abadi inaugurated 20 industrial, infrastructure, and development projects valued at 294.8 trillion rials (over $58.9 million) in industrial parks and zones across the country through video conferencing.

The inauguration ceremony was also attended by the acting head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO) Farshad Moghimi.

Put into operation in 11 different provinces, the mentioned projects were inaugurated on the occasion of the national day of supporting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

The projects were carried out in the provinces of Kermanshah, Markazi, Zanjan, Yazd, Alborz, Lorestan, Sistan-Baluchestan, Golestan, Isfahan, Qazvin, and East Azarbaijan.

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