Tech Upgrade for Copper Industry

The technology ecosystem and a domestic copper company signed seven contracts totaling 500 billion rials ($1.8 million) with the help of the state-backed Iran National Innovation Fund.
Shahid Bahonar Copper Industries Company presented a list of technological shortfalls in the field and called on tech firms and startups to help tackle them during an online event called Zanjireh (meaning Chain in Persian) organized by the fund on Tuesday, ISNA reported.
According to Hamidreza Shahvardi, INIF’s chief advisor, the event was aimed at introducing domestic industries with tech investment opportunities, completing their value chain, upgrading industrial technologies and expanding the tech ecosystem’s target market.
Shahvardi said copper production is one of Iran’s key industries closely connected with automotive and electric vehicle production, new transportation systems, power, electronic and micro-electronic industries.