Farid Dosti
said in an interview with Aparat that the planning for holding the 17th Iran
Plast exhibition started from the beginning of the year so that we could
execute this exhibition in the best way possible, stating: With the follow-ups,
we realized that one of the weaknesses of the 16th Iran Plast exhibition was
advertising due to sanctions. Therefore, in this year's exhibition, we were
able to invite foreign companies by expanding activities and advertising. In
the last period, eight foreign companies participated in the Iran Plast
exhibition, while this figure has reached 210 foreign companies this year.
He stressed:
The presence of foreign companies from 15 countries is a clear example of the
desirable international relations of the people's administration.
The director
of the 17th Iran Plast International Exhibition said that last year only about
20,000 square meters of the international exhibition space was allocated to
Iran Plast, adding: But this year, the entire exhibition space was allocated to
this exhibition.
Dosti continued:
This year, we launched a virtual exhibition for companies that could not attend
this exhibition for various reasons. All virtual exhibition services are free
and designed in two languages and efforts are being made to make it five
languages.
He emphasized:
The main message of the Iran Plast exhibition to Western countries is that the
petrochemical industry shows in practice that it is working.
The director
of the 17th Iran Plast International Exhibition said that indigenizing the
knowledge of the petrochemical industry is a key point that can help prevent
the sale of raw materials, adding: To this end, Petrochemical Research and
Technology Company has committed to indigenize all catalysts of the industry by
the end of the 13th administration with a focus on National Petrochemical
Company, which has so far indigenized 85% of catalyst knowledge. This is while
foreign countries do not believe that Iran has such capabilities.
Dosti stated:
The petrochemical industry is an industry with high currency generation that
supplies a large part of the country's currency needs and has prevented many
economic pressures. So this industry is inconspicuous and hidden on people's
tablecloth.
He added: One
of the honors of National Petrochemical Company is credit sales to downstream
industries so that they can supply their required feedstock. About 28 thousand
billion tomans of petrochemical products have been sold on credit to downstream
petrochemical industries in the past five months.
The director
of the 17th Iran Plast International Exhibition reminded: We have designed a
section called "Plast Jobs" for the 17th Iran Plast exhibition to
identify and introduce experts and graduates of petrochemicals to the industry
and invite all graduates to register their plans in Plast Jobs.
The 17th Iran
Plast International Exhibition, which started on Sunday (September 6) with the
approach of developing the value chain, supporting domestic production and
boosting domestic manufacturing at Tehran Permanent International Fairground,
will run for four days.