Sefid Dasht Produces 62KT of Sponge Iron in 3 Months

Sefid Dasht Steel Complex produced 62,214 tons of direct-reduced iron during the first three months of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), the deputy head of the company, Jamshid Alibabaei, said. According to the official, 38,832 tons of the total DRI production were produced during the third month of the year (May 22-June 21), Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization reported. SDSCO is currently operating with a production capacity of 800,000 tons of DRI per year, and its first batch of the material was produced back in late 2016. Located in the southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, SDSCO is one of the seven steel projects initiated by the 10th administration in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan, Yazd, Kerman, East Azarbaijan, South Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi. Direct-reduced iron, also called sponge iron, is produced from the direct reduction of iron ore to iron by a reducing gas or elementary carbon produced from natural gas or coal. Iran is the biggest producer of sponge iron in the world.