Getting to know Iran’s petrochemical companies: This episode is by Amir Kabir

Energy Press reports that the 6th Olefin Project, or Amirkabir Petrochemical, was born in 1998 in the Mahshahr Special Economic Zone. But this beginning was accompanied by controversy; the transfer of part of the company’s shares to Navid Zarshimi at a price far lower than the real value was one of the first financial margins of the complex. However, Amirkabir quickly became a leading factory and was able to localize the technology of manufacturing olefin furnaces, ethylene reactors and heavy polyethylene for the first time in the country.
The Amirkabir Petrochemical Complex, with two thousand employees, is located in Bandar Imam, south of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone, and on Site 4, approximately northwest of the Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex; on a land area of 55 hectares.
Its production capacity is 1.8 million tons per year (including ethylene, polyethylene, propylene, benzene pyrolysis, and butadiene), and the feedstock for this petrochemical plant is supplied from the Western Pipeline (ethane, raffinate, butane, pentane, and liquefied gas).