prologue The K 2022 exhibition would have been an exceptional exhibition if only for the Germans, because it had recorded the record of the 70th year of holding this exhibition, but for Plastic Industries Monthly and its friends and colleagues inside and outside the circle, it still played a role in several important events. It was said that I will not address them. But what was the important achievement of this exhibition is a serious decision to produce green polymers in the next 7 to 10 years. In other words, the developed world has decided to bring the production of polymers from oil and gas sources to zero by 2030 in advanced countries and by 2033 in developing countries (for example, our country, which, of course, has its back in terms of development) Otherwise, we should be more advanced than South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.) This action is due to global warming as a result of excessive use of fossil fuels in oil, gas and petrochemical countries to produce polymers, and of course, even more excessive use of these fuels in the form of car fuel all over the world. It has been accepted and the facts show that the more backward countries are (meaning from the point of view of consumption culture and civilization), the more greenhouse gas production! The decision to produce green polymers is so serious that the developed world has invited the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (#IMF), the world’s shipping industry and several other institutions to cooperate and help to implement this great decision. . This decision was the most important issue that was adopted during the pre-exhibition conferences, the #K2022 exhibition, which we were honored that due to my personal problems, he accepted the effort and participated in it. As far as the plastic industry and polymer production industries are related to the territory of this media, two main axes have been identified to achieve this goal:
– The production of polymers from any type of non-fossil source and the serious prohibition of the production of polymers from fossil fuels (what is happening in Iran and the hope that the cooperation plans for the development of the petrochemical industries of Iran and South Korea will be revised in this regard); 2- Stylization of all household appliances and products of other industries whose products are dependent on the use of polymers (in this regard, the Monthly Plastic Industries had prepared a large and truly international conference – LWP Conference – for March 2018, but suddenly Due to the problem of the arrival of COVID-19, we were forced to postpone it despite all the expenses incurred, and of course, later we found out that a number of polymer professors hijacked this idea and the title of the webinar that was first held about 10 years ago by This monthly appeared, by organizing a webinar with the same title, they were able to tell the attendees what is related to light polymers and to the extent of their little knowledge); 3- The stylization of all polymer parts used in cars and the recyclability of all car parts (regardless of the type of structural materials) so that there is no longer an area called “car graveyard” in different cities of the main Europe and End-of-life vehicles are sent directly to disassembly and recycling centers, and the materials obtained from them can be used again for the production of other non-sensitive automobile products, household appliances, and office furniture. Fear of the conditions of the country’s plastic industries and existing petrochemicals What is going on in Iran’s petrochemical industries today is the production of all kinds of polymers and petroleum derivatives by feeding oil and gas sources. It means that between the next 10 to 13 years, production, domestic sale and export and its use in household products and any product will be prohibited and subject to heavy international fines. As far as I remember from last year’s Iran Plast exhibition and from Kaftko with some petrochemical officials, it is that the group under the command of the new oil minister, who mostly sit in the decision-making chairs in areas other than their expertise, as far as It depends on petrochemicals and its products, they hardly knew the polymers themselves until they came to its green type. During the last one year, there has been no news of new petrochemical plans to produce green polymers. So it can be expected that our friends in this huge network are in a rabbit sleep and far from the realities of the world. This is that after a long time I felt a duty and because of trying to preserve the relevant industries in my country and more importantly the downstream conversion industries, I started writing. What will happen to the transformation industries? If there is no change in the supply of petrochemical units with non-fossil sources (which is a time-consuming and expensive task in its own right), since the announcement of the global ban on the trading of fossil polymers, domestic petrochemicals can only produce materials for domestic consumption by accepting global fines. . In this way, Iran will face a production surplus, the only way to deal with it is to close down many petrochemical production units or, in relation to some polymers that are produced in several units, to reduce the production cycle time. In other words, the price of materials will not only not be cheap, but may reach twice the domestic price. At the same time, due to the internal production of polymers, if the import regulations are not changed, the import of green materials will not be allowed, and in this way, the units that produce export products will have to forget their markets. As a result, in our most optimistic state, we have to produce for ourselves and consume ourselves. In this case, from the consumer’s point of view and for many products, there will be no justification for buying plastic goods. In short, the entire industry will collapse. Personally, if I had a factory, I would plan to keep it until 1408 at the latest and sell it before we reach that year. Please wake up. Ahmed Ali Saatnia August 17, 1401
