Wins Exemplary Industrial Unit Award
TEHRAN: Pars Khodro car manufacturing company set the highest car production record in the year to March 2006 by producing 100,000 vehicles.
According to a report faxed to Iran Daily by Public Relations Office of the major automaker Saipa, of which Pars Khodro is a subsidiary, the company managed to boost production by 120 percent against the figure for the previous year.
The company has put its workforce productivity rate at 55 percent during the said period, when it employed 1,500 new workers.
Pars Khodro has won the March 2005-2006 Exemplary Industrial Unit Award.
The company produces the Iranian versions of Kia Pride as well as several Nissan models, including Nissan Maxima, Nissan Pickup, etc, and PK, a budget car which looks like the old Renault-5 but with a 1300cc engine and air conditioning.
Iran manufactured 994,000 vehicles in 2005, of which 880,000 units were cars and 114,000 commercial vehicles, including lorries, buses, minibuses and pick-up trucks.
Car exports also reached a total of $110.3 million in the year to March 2006, up 63 percent against the figure for the corresponding period the previous year.
Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Russia and Kuwait were Iran's top auto industry customers during March 2005-2006, when cars worth some $65.4 million were exported to Syria alone.
Iran also exported $70.2 million worth of car parts in the same period, when it sold some $78 million of trucks and buses on the international markets.
Imports reached 10,000 units in 2005, which was far below budget projections.
© Iran Daily 2006
