Iranian Company Produces Electrical Panel Sockets for Petrochemical Industry

Alireza Elhami, the managing director of the knowledge-based company and a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Islamic Azad University’s Rasht branch, attended Asr-e Omid event in Tabriz in Northwestern Iran with a product made of heaters and thermal elements.

"We have had numerous contracts with petrochemical companies so far, and for the first time, we have been able to reverse engineer heaters that were previously manufactured by Italian companies and delivered to petrochemical companies, and we have made them explosion-proof,” he told ANA.

"We have recently succeeded in producing electrical panel sockets, products that were previously manufactured by Italian companies. The university negotiated with the Iranian petrochemical companies and we succeeded in signing a very large contract with the managers of a company to supply 400 pieces of these sockets," Elhami said.

In a relevant development in February, another knowledge-based company in Iran had also succeeded in indigenizing and exports of the Distributed Control System (DCS) for refineries and petrochemical plants.

“Our product is one of the most reliable DCSs globally which has been installed in over 20 refineries and petrochemical plants in Iran and has been used for more than 10 years,” said Javad Khodatars, the market development manager of the company.

“The DCS is a fully digital system that provides the user with a single architecture with full functionality from a few inputs and outputs to tens of thousands of inputs and outputs to connect people, processes and production. This intelligent integration provides the right infrastructure for advanced applications, resulting in better efficiency and fewer undesirable changes in the process,” he added.

"Our product is mainly used in the Russian oil and gas industries, and we currently supply approximately 40 percent of the neighboring country's needs for this product," Khodatars said.

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