The four-day event was inaugurated at Tehran’s
permanent fairground with the presence of senior oil ministry officials,
including Hassan Abbaszadeh, deputy petroleum minister and head of the National
Petrochemical Company (NPC), and Seyed Ali-Mohammad Mousavi, deputy minister
for international and commercial affairs.
Foreign participation includes 49 companies from
China and India, as well as representatives from South Korea, Taiwan, Germany,
Austria, Italy and Turkey. Around 200 business delegates from 18 countries,
including Russia, China, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Africa, Qatar and the
UAE, are expected to hold B2B meetings with Iranian traders during the event.
Exhibition space has been divided by category:
raw materials in halls 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 27; machinery and equipment in halls
38, 38A and 38B; and finished and semi-finished products in halls 18, 31, 35,
40, 41 and 44.