Ardakan Steel Complex The country's first and largest private project for the production of sponge iron to meet the domestic demand of steel mills and steel, including the complete production chain (concentrate unit, pelletizing unit, sponge iron, smelting and steel unit). , Rolling mill) is in Ardakan, Yazd. The integrated end-product market will include both domestic and foreign consumers (mainly regional and Asian countries). The product of this project will be cold sponge iron reclaimed pellets, all of which will be consumed in the domestic steel sector, and all scrap iron consumers will be able to use this product as scrap metal for melting furnaces if necessary. To use.
The first phase of the project, Sponge Steel Iron Project, started in 2012 with an annual capacity of 96 million tons based on Miderks technology, which is approved both in terms of domestic technical capability and energy consumption and product quality. This project will be one of the most modern plants of its kind in Iran by installing a plant including a direct gas recovery module with cold output and using Miderks technology (Module 800 Series). The nominal capacity of the resuscitation module is 9,600,000 tonnes per year, which can be increased to approximately one million and fifty thousand tonnes per year as design capacity.