TEHRAN- As announced by a provincial official, 16 idle production units were revived in Ilam province, in the west of Iran, since the beginning of current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2023).

Jamil Shohani, the director of the office of coordination investment and employment affairs in the governorate of the province, said that revving 30 stagnant units in the province has been targeted for this year.

Head of Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO) Farshad Moghimi has announced that 897 idle industrial units have been revived in the country’s industrial parks and zones since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year.

The mentioned units returning to the production cycle have created jobs for about 36,000 persons, the official stated.

He also announced that 1,240 production units have been established and started activity in the country’s industrial parks and zones since the year start.

The mentioned units have created jobs for 17,727 persons, the official stated.

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 in order to bring them back into the production cycle by resolving such problems.

In September, Industry, Mining, and Trade Minister Abbas Ali-Abadi inaugurated 20 industrial, infrastructure, and development projects valued at 294.8 trillion rials (over $60 million) in industrial parks and zones across the country through video conferencing.

The inauguration ceremony was also attended by 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 include nine infrastructure projects with a total investment of 1.88 trillion rials (about $3.82 million), seven industrial projects with an investment of 18.35 trillion rials (over $37.8 million), and the revival of four idle industrial units with an investment of 9.24 trillion rials (over $18.9 million).

As reported, the inauguration of the mentioned projects has created direct job opportunities for 723 people.

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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