Piranshahr Sugar Company

Piranshahr Sugar Company (Public Joint-Stock) was established as a private joint-stock company in 1983 and registered under number 130269 on December 17, 1983, at the Tehran Companies and Industrial Property Registration Office. It converted to a public joint-stock company on October 24, 1996, and was listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange on January 22, 1997.The factory began production in 1969 with a capacity of processing 1,000 tons of sugar beet per day, and its operational permit (No. 340429) was issued on March 20, 1970. Management of the plant was handled by Shahdsaz Company, affiliated with the Ministry of Industries, until 1983, after which it was registered as an independent entity. Through an expansion project in 1996, the plant’s nominal capacity increased from 1,000 to 1,500 tons of sugar beet processing per day. Additionally, operational permits for the alcohol production unit and raw sugar refining unit were issued in 1999 and 2000, respectively. The alcohol unit has an annual nominal capacity of 3.6 million liters of medical and industrial alcohol, while the raw sugar refining unit can process 70,000 tons of raw sugar into refined white sugar annually, with a packaging capacity of 15,000 tons per year.An expansion project to increase the plant’s capacity from 1,500 to 2,500 tons of sugar beet processing per day was initiated in 2001 and approved by the Ministry of Industries in March 2007. Ultimately, based on operational permit No. 110/42754 dated January 23, 2009, the processing capacity was increased to 3,000 tons of sugar beet per day.