VOL. XXXIV

NO. 52

30-SEPTEMBER-1991

Iran

Mobarakeh Steel Plant Comes on Stream; Bauxite Plant Contract Signed

The first phase of the Mobarakeh steel plant near Isfahan was inaugurated byIranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on 26 September, according toTehran radio. The plant is scheduled to reach its full annual capacity of 2.4mntons/year within a year. The plant was first designed by an Italian consortiumduring the 1970s, when it was to be located in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf coast.After...