Plant Claimed To Be Largest In Middle East

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has opened the Middle East’s largest iron ore pellet manufacturing factory.

The Gol Gohar factory, located 60km from Sirjan in Iran’s south-eastern province of Kerman, was opened in a ceremony on Saturday.

The plant is capable of producing 2.0 to 2.5 million tonnes of steel in a year.