Knowledge-Based Firm to Meet 30% of Iranian Factories' Need of Hermetic Refrigeration Compressors
“Compressor is considered as one of the most important parts of a refrigerator, freezer and water dispensers. The compressor somehow acts as the heart of a refrigerator which produces refrigeration in these machines by circulating the gas inside the engine,” Meisam Ahmadi Zia, the managing director of a knowledge-based company said at the opening ceremony of hermetic compressors production line in his company.
“Producing household refrigerator compressors which are known as hermetic compressors is considered a high-tech industry, and only few countries have achieved the know-how of producing this product.For that, refrigerator factories are in trouble,” he said.
“Since 1988, a domestic company under patent by a European company tried to produce the hermetic compressors inside the country, but it was not successful, and now, in cooperation with a Chinese company and through importing parts, it is assembling these compressors domestically,” he added.
He further pointed to the success of their company's researchers in locally producing the product, and said, "By forming a research and development team with the participation of a group of university professors and graduates of electrical, mechanical and other fields of studies and through reverse engineering, compressor design and production, we started production of hermetic in the factory and at the beginning of 2019, the first stage of prototyping these compressors was approved, and later the mass production of the knowledge-based product was put on agenda.”
“The production capacity is 5.1 million hermetic compressors each year, therefor, we expect to meet 20% to 30% of domestic demand for hermetic compressors within two years after launching this production line,” Ahmadi Zia went on to say.
He expressed hope that in the next few years and with the implementation of development phases, 60% of the needs of refrigerator manufacturers in the country will be met.
About the job generation for young workforce and university graduates inside the country, he said, “A total number of 60 people will be directly employed in the factory after the launch of this production line; at the same time, we intend to leave the production of parts of these compressors to domestic parts makers, which will create jobs for 100 more people.”
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