Iran's Esfahan Steel Co will produce 100,000 mt of rail this year for the ministry of roads and 

urban  development,  Ilna  News Agency  reported  Tuesday,  citing Esco's deputy managing 

director for sales & exports, Ehsan Dashtianeh. 

"By the end of the current Iranian year (March 2018), some 40,000 mt of rail will be produced 

for  the  Iranian  national  railways and we are also planning to produce another 40,000 mt of 

rails  which  will  be  supplied  to  the  Construction  & Infrastructure Development Company," 

Dashtianeh was quoted as saying. 

Construction  &  Infrastructure  Development  is  a  state company responsible for repair and 

renovation of the country's railways. 

"In total some 100,000 mt of rail will is planned to be produced by Esco up to end of the year" 

Dashtianeh said. 

"At  the  moment,  our  main  priority  is supplying of rail to state companies, especially for the 

development of infrastructures. However, if we do not get an agreement with state companies

, Esco will consider other requests from domestic and exporting markets too", he said. 

Last September, Esco launched a 400,000 million mt/year rolling mill with the participation of 

a German company to produce rail and wide-flange beams but it has not sold any rail to the 

country's  national  railways yet and only some trial products have been produced up to now, 

according to domestic news reports.