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 TEHRAN — Iran's cement production hit 35.2 million tons in the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 21), said the secretary of the Iranian Cement Industry Employers’ Union here on Sunday.IRNA news agency quoted Mohammad Hassan Pourkhalil as saying that the cement production of the country increased around 16.2 percent in the mentioned period in comparison to that of the same period of last year. The country has produced about 33.8 million tons of clinker in the recent six months (ended September 22), up 16 percent compared to the same period of last year, he added. Previously, Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mehdi Ghazanfari announced that the country's current cement production capacity stands at 74 million tons. Ghazanfari added that with the implementation of new projects the figure will reach 110 million tons by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2010-2015).
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