Iran Exports Nanotechnology Products to Dozens of Foreign States
Iranian knowledge-based companies have recorded more than $10 million in exports to Turkey and Iraq as the most important importers of Iran-made nanotechnology products.
Other customers of these products include Russia, India, Kazakhstan, the US, the UK, Mongolia, Pakistan, etc.
Iranian nanotechnology companies exported $62 million worth of products in the past Iranian year, showing a 53% growth compared to the previous year.
Former Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said earlier this year that some 270 companies are active in the nanotechnology field and it is predicted that their revenue will reach up to $310 million, currently, nanotech products are produced and marketed in more than 15 industrial fields based on domestic technologies and are being exported to 49 countries from five continents.
Iran currently ranks 4th in the world in the production of nano-science. This comes as part of Iran's Nanotechnology Initiative Council’s first development plan, which has sought to advance nano-science in the country.
The second 10-year plan, which started in 2015, seeks to move nano-science from paper to the industry. In the meantime, the Nanotechnology Initiative Council is working on a third plan to trade Iranian nano-products in the global market.
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