Heavy losses for the steel industry due to the recent truckers' strike

Nationwide trucker strikes across Iran have caused heavy losses to Iran's industry, including steel.

Following nationwide protests in Iran and the boycotts imposed by the public against the purchase of certain products, Iranian truck drivers began to strike in support of the people and the protests, with more and more joining the strike every day.

A video posted on social media by a citizen from the Oxin Ferroalloy Company (a subsidiary of the Isfahan Steelworks) shows that the company is running out of raw materials due to the truckers' strike. The company used charcoal, which is the raw material for the production of ferrosilicon, to produce ferrosilicon. Due to the truckers' strike and the lack of charcoal, they secretly cut down pine trees around the steelworks at night and use them to melt in the furnace.

Ferrosilicon is a mixture of iron and silicon that is produced by heating, reducing, and melting iron ore and silica (quartz) with carbon, mainly in electric arc furnaces at temperatures of 2400 degrees.

The largest consumers of ferrosilicon in the country are steel factories, which account for nearly 38,000 tons of the total ferrosilicon consumed annually. Foundries (such as Poladir Casting Company) are also consumers of this material, and including steelmakers' consumption, the country's total consumption reaches about 50,000 tons.

The country's industrial needs for ferroalloys, including ferrosilicon, were met entirely through imports before the establishment of domestic production companies. However, today, with the establishment of ferroalloy factories and the expansion of the ferroalloy industry in the country, it is possible to export ferroalloys while meeting part of the domestic need for ferrosilicon.

But with the truckers' strike due to the protests that have been taking place in Iran for about 3 months, raw materials have not reached these manufacturing plants, and if these strikes continue, the country's economic backbone will be broken. As a result, not only will all consumers not have this product, but the country's export hub will also be destroyed.

Truck drivers, knowing that engaging in these strikes might cost them their jobs and income, have started and continued this strike in support of the protests and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic regime.

But the question is: How long will these strikes continue? Will other truck drivers working in various organizations such as textile, food, oil, and gas join these strikes for the victory of the popular revolution against the Islamic Republic regime?