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The company was established under a 1966 Iran–Soviet agreement. It began construction in 1968 and started production in 1972, launching steelmaking and rolling operations in 1973. In 2013, with completion of the Tawazun project, it reached a capacity of 3.6 million tons of molten iron.
From Wikipedia’s article on Esfahan Steel Company, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4