According to National Petrochemical Company (NPC), Mahyar Naderi, caretaker of the development of knowledge-based businesses and construction at NPC, said: “In line with the realization of the year's slogan and the Supreme Leader's instructions to turn the country’s industries into knowledge-based, Petrochemical Industry Self-Sufficiency Center has been launched with the aim of benefiting from knowledge-based and technology companies, domestic manufacturers and universities and research centers, by aggregating the activities of in-house manufacturing of equipment and spare parts needed by the industry, AVL Petrochemical Industry and the development of knowledge-based businesses.”

Emphasizing the importance of realizing domestic manufacturing plans for the first time in the petrochemical industry, he added: “Important goals and activities for this center have been formulated, which are the statistics of the equipment and spare parts needed by the petrochemical industry, identification of domestic and knowledge-based manufacturing capabilities, and the coordination of supply and demand in this field.”