TEHRAN, Iran, Nov. 15
Trend:
The volume of Iran’s machine-made carpet exports reached over 68 million square meters during the previous Iranian year (ended on March 20), an official at the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade said, Trend reports citing ILNA.
Afsaneh Mehrabi, the director-general of the Weaving and Garment Industries Department of the ministry, puts the total capacity of machine-made carpet production of Iran at 135 million square meters per year, of which 94 million square meters are being produced.
She announced the formation of an export consortium by the Iran Chamber of Commerce and Trade Promotion Organization, to solve the carpet exporters' problems.
The Ministry of Industry, Mine, and trade seeks to increase the export of machine-made carpets via using the vacant production capacities.
