“219 research contracts worth 850 billion Rials have been signed during 2019 and 2020 in mining section with the cooperation of different universities.” Said IMIDRO’s chairman.
According
to IMIDRO’s public relations, Khodadad Gharibpur said: “according to the
numbers and statistics, IMIDRO and other related companies have signed 219
research contracts worth 850 billion Rials with different universities during
the last two years.”
According
to him, 36 of the projects, worth 142 billion Rials, are related to contracts
of the Iranian Mines
and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) with the
University of Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, Iran University of
Science and Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Academic Center for
Education, Culture and Research, Iran Society of Mining Engineering, Tarbiat
Modares University, Shahid Beheshti University, Isfahan University of Technology,
Imam Khomeini International University, University of Kashan, Hamedan
University of Technology, Golpayegan College of Engineering, and Islamic Azad
University.
“During
this time,” continued the vice minister of Industry, Mine and Trade, “Mobarake
Steel Company signed 53 contracts, Gol Gohar signed 30 contracts, Sarcheshme
Copper signed 28 contracts, Esfahan Steel Company signed 16 contracts, Iran
Minerals Production and Supply Co. signed 12 contracts, Sungun copper Mine signed
11 contracts, Iran Alumina Co. signed 10 contracts, Khorasan Steel signed 9
contracts, Khuzestan Steel signed 7 contracts, Chadormalu signed 5 contracts,
and Iran Alloy steel Company signed 2 contracts with different universities.”
“IMIDRO also defined and executed projects regarding
‘productivity’,” Mr. Gharibpur added, “which includes designing a model to
identify the priorities related to the country’s different mining products’
production optimization, with the purpose of defining separate research
projects, to optimize the production of the prior minerals, optimizing
approaches to manage repairing and maintaining in order to decrease the
machines’ breaking in IMIDRO’s mines, along with testing, analyzing and
presenting a management model for IMIDRO’s and its subsidiary companies’ projects
and mining activities’ waste.”
According to him, other projects related to this subject
are collecting the travertine waste in Anguran mine in Zanjan and changing it into
products with added value, defining a processing and engineering development
program for IMIDRO, analyzing the role of the developing organizations in
optimizing the production, synergy and compatibility of mining corporations.
Mr. Gharibpur said: “in addition to all these, there is
an annual Mine and Mining Industry Productivity Award which is held in order to
identify the most productive companies and the best productivity optimizing
projects. As a result of this testing process, a lot of productivity optimizing
projects are defined in different companies.”