Alborz Plastics, Polymer and Parts Manufacturing Industry Challenges Reviewed

Karaj – Alborz Province's Deputy Governor for Economic Affairs, meeting with plastics industry players, reviewed their challenges and demands regarding raw material supply, liquidity, banking and currency issues, production costs, and job retention.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, quoted from Alborz Governorate, Mojtaba Bobor, Acting Deputy for Coordination of Economic Affairs of Alborz Governorate, in line with the schedule of the weekly presence of the Economic Deputy of Alborz Governorate to deal with private sector issues, he attended the Alborz Chamber of Commerce like last Tuesdays and discussed the challenges raised in a meeting with economic activists and representatives of industrial organizations in the field of plastics, polymers and auto parts.

Examining the challenges of plastic and polymer industry in Alborz province

In Borbor's meeting with the board members of the Alborz Homogenous Plastic Industries Association, the problems of this industry were discussed in six main axes, including the shortage and increase in the price of raw materials and supply problems in the commodity exchange, lack of liquidity and limited banking facilities, barriers to import and allocation of foreign currency and clearing foreign exchange obligations, increase in production costs, decrease in the domestic and export sales market, and the difficulty of providing and maintaining manpower.

In this meeting, the deputy head of the coordination of economic affairs of Alborz Governorate emphasized the necessity of coordinating these issues and pursuing support solutions for the continuation of production and maintaining employment.

Dealing with the demands of auto parts manufacturers

In a meeting with the members of the board of directors of the province's automotive parts manufacturers' association, the deputy head of economic affairs coordination of Alborz governorate reviewed the issues and obstacles facing the parts manufacturing units. In this meeting, the insurance problems, unemployment insurance status of the workers who left the production units, and the need to follow up the demands of the parts makers from the contracting companies and return the production orders to these units with the aim of preventing the reduction of employment were discussed.

In another part of the meeting with the representatives of the component manufacturing industry, banking problems and the limitations of providing facilities and working capital were discussed, and the capacity of using financing tools such as promissory notes, letters of credit (LC) and other guarantees was raised and the use of these tools was emphasized to facilitate financing and support the activities of production units.

Emphasis on the compilation of the operational economic development document

In another part of his visit to the Chamber of Commerce, the Acting Vice President of Economic Affairs Coordination of Alborz Governorate participated in the meeting explaining the process of compiling the economic development document of the province.

Emphasizing the need for this document to be realistic, dynamic and operational, he stated that the results of the investigations should lead to a set of priorities and executive solutions for the economic development of the province and should be able to be converted into plans and practical measures.

Borbor also considered the cooperation of all executive bodies and the private sector to be necessary for the preparation and completion of this document and emphasized the importance of using the capacities and perspectives of economic activists in determining the development priorities of the province.

The weekly attendance program of the Alborz governorate economic affairs coordination deputy in the chamber of commerce is held with the aim of directly investigating the problems of the private sector, strengthening the interaction between executive bodies and economic organizations, and following up on the demands of the production and industrial units of the province.