The executive works of the construction of the various units of the factory began in 1346, and with the establishment of coking workshops, agglomeration, and blast furnace No. 1 in the first half of January 1350, the operation of the complex began with the production of cast iron and the production of steel products with the establishment of the steelmaking and rolling engineering department in It started in January 1351 with a capacity of 550,000 tons per year, and on March 23, 1974, Alexei Kasygin, the head of the Soviet Council of Ministers, arrived in Tehran with his daughter to attend the opening ceremony of the Isfahan Iron Smelting Factory.
Subsequently, in 1351, the construction and executive works of the development plan to reach the capacity of 1,900,000 tons of steel per year began with the construction of blast furnace number 2 and the development of various departments of agglomeration, coking, steelmaking, rolling, etc. And the construction operation of the cast iron complex was completed in 1357. Lack of raw materials See also: value chain, megacorporation, and vertical integration. In the past years, Isfahan Iron Smelter has faced a shortage of raw materials such as iron ore, concentrate, pellets, and coal, which has reduced the company’s production to half of its nominal capacity.
