Iranian PVC Producers Demonstrate against Raw Material Outage: Over 100 managers of PVC production units in Iran gathered at the Ministry of Industry’s main building on Wednesday, protesting against a lack of supply of raw material.
The demonstrators held placards reading “Protest of downstream petrochemical producers over lack of raw material supply by petrochemical companies and the Mercantile Exchange” or “Putting turns and twists in resistance economy by disrupting supply to PVC companies”.
A group of the protestors sat for urgent talks with M.R. Nematzadeh the Minister of ITM or one of the officials, after which they were promised a meeting in a couple of days with either of the ministers of oil or industry, or their deputies, INPIA reported.
However, to keep the demonstrators calm the Ministry’s office accepted to negotiate with a couple of demonstrators’ representatives. After the decision made, Mr. M. H. Kharrazi, the managing director of the PVC Cooperative was accepted by the Minister’s Office and as a result the head of the Minister’s Office promised for an urgent meeting within the next couple of days.
About Moohammad Reza Nematzadeh the Minister of ITM:
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Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh is an Iranian politician and engineer and the incumbent minister of industry of Iran since he was approved by the Iranian parliament on 15 August 2013.
Early life and education
Born in Tabriz in 1945, Nematzadeh received his elementary and secondary education in Tehran and a bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering from the California State Polytechnic University in 1968. He was a graduate student in industrial management at the University of California (Berkeley) but was unable to continue and returned to Iran.
Career
Nematzadeh was the minister of labour in 1980 and served as the minister of industry from 1980 to 1981, and again from 1989 to 1997. He also chaired the presidential campaign of the current Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, which led to an election of Rouhani in June, 2013. On 15 August, he was confirmed by the Majlis as minister of industry, mining and trade, receiving 199 Yes votes and 60 Nays. 24 Majlis members did not attend the session.
