Self-Sufficiency in Producing Main Petrochem Catalysts Within 2 Years

Iran will no longer need to import the main catalysts used in the petrochemical industry by 2023, managing director of Petrochemical Research and Technology Company said.
“Of the 40 types of catalysts used in the petrochemical industry, 20 groups have been indigenized. By the end of the current Iranian year [March 2022], eight more groups will be localized while the remaining 12 groups are being developed now,” the National Petrochemical Company news website Nipna also quoted Majid Daftari as saying.
In recent years, despite the sanctions imposed on Iran, which hampered the import of petrochemical catalysts, experts and engineers at PRTC, in collaboration with knowledge-based companies, launched efforts to meet the needs of petrochemical plants by indigenizing the catalysts, he added.