Considering ever-increasing of clean energy demand (particularly, solar energy according to radiation potentials in Iran) and increase of living standards, as well as increasing growth of silicon element-based industries, the need to develop silicon value chain in the country is inevitable. Replacing the solar energy as the greatest source of clean and inexpensive energy in the world and using raw materials based on silica ore in the industry has caused Araz Silicon Industries to take substantial actions in the field of producing raw materials of solar cells and the associated industries and then establishing solar power plants.
In line with this, large complex of factories for producing industrial silicon, polysilicon, solar cells and solar panels will create a lot of jobs in addition to preventing the currency exit, and chain value of silicon industry from extraction of industrial silicon from ore to producing solar panel and establishing solar power plant will be fulfilled. In fact, Araz Silicon Industries Campus consisting of a group of elites (5 university faculty members and 7 medal winner of scientific Olympiads of the country) and industrial activists of the country with brilliant records and different abilities in different scientific, industrial, commercial and economic areas intends to create the complete chain of silicon industry from extracting 99% silicon from ore to producing solar panels and all types of silicon polymers in the country with a knowledge-based approach with the following 10-year vision.
Industrial silicon, as the first product in silicon value chain, has reached to the production stage in Araz Silicon Industries Company for the first time in Iran and the Middle East. Industrial silicon, as the main product of the process, is an extremely important and strategic product in industry chain and is considered as one of the most versatile upstream products in the industry and has gained the title of the most important functional material in semi-conductors industry, electronic information industry and industry of solar photovoltaic cells of the new energies and new materials industries.
Industrial products resulting from are of different types and include a wide range of areas. In industry, they are known as magical products to the extent that in China, which has a share of around 64% in global production of this product, this product is considered as the one of the pillars of China’s economic reconstruction. According to experts, generation of photovoltaic energy in the middle of and late 20th century will be one of the most important initial sources of energy for human beings. Therefore, creating a high basis to start producing large-scale industrial silicon has a strategic importance in the long-run for generation of photovoltaic electricity and even adjusting the energy structure. Thus, the country’s activity in production of industrial silicon according to any of the following cases has had a production property in product.
Undoubtedly, the responsibility of organization is not to be effective merely, but they should serve the community in which they operate. In line with this, social responsibility is essential for project management and covers all stages from phase zero and preliminary phase up to project implementation. In addition to physical design and investment and production specifications, the managers should consider the side effects of the activities and allocate part of the project resources to the topic of social responsibility and take care the surrounding environment suffers from no harmful effects.
In today’s business paradigm, success secret of the large companies is not only profitability for shareholders and performance of the legal responsibility. But, the beneficiaries expect that the company undertakes economic, social, environmental and ethical responsibilities and be transparent and accountable against them.
Undoubtedly, the responsibility of organization is not to be effective merely, but they should serve the community in which they operate. In line with this, social responsibility is essential for project management and covers all stages from phase zero and preliminary phase up to project implementation. In addition to physical design and investment and production specifications, the managers should consider the side effects of the activities and allocate part of the project resources to the topic of social responsibility and take care the surrounding environment suffers from no harmful effects.
In today’s business paradigm, success secret of the large companies is not only profitability for shareholders and performance of the legal responsibility. But, the beneficiaries expect that the company undertakes economic, social, environmental and ethical responsibilities and be transparent and accountable against them.
Product demand forecast for a 5-year horizon: Given the request of the country manufacturing the first and second furnaces and other foreign commercial companies which want to sign contract for pre-purchasing the product at 95 percent of price of FOB Shanghai, the demand exceeds the production and is competitive in the face of global and international products. This is based on long and desirable records of the complex’s management in companies existing in foreign commercial sector. It is predicted that through production and export of phase 1 of industrial silicon, more than $90 million in foreign exchange is realized annually for the country.
⦁ Sustainable Development, Social Responsibility and Solving the Country’s Fundamental Problem
In addition to the foregoing, processing and production of this mineral product in Khoy region as a deprived region using the local capacities of the region has been another turning point in knowledge-based innovative activity of Araz Silicon Company. The land for implementing the project is located at Phase 2 of Khoy Industrial Park and its area is more than 171 thousand square meters. In phase 1 of the project, around 30 thousand square meters of the land occupied by the project is for direct employment of 600 persons.
What is considered in Araz Silicon Industries Campus is this point that “social responsibility” is not to do “charitable works” or to make “special support” from some influential local figures and/or other irresponsible actions. Usually, when it comes to social responsibility, the mechanism of satisfying the critics through making them “indebted” is put in the agenda of some managers of the companies. Whereas, “transparency” is considered as one of the social responsibilities of the economic enterprises. In addition to the fact that these measures provide a mechanism for compensating the social and environmental costs of activity to extract and process mineral materials primarily, they improve the relationship of Araz Silicon with the local communities and this way, economic risks of poor relationships with local community is reduced and as a result, production operations are not delayed or even stopped; the point which has clearly been forgotten in economic, mineral and oil activities in Iran or has been gone astray by misunderstanding the concept of “social responsibility.” Our plan in Araz Silicon for social responsibility is in association with the local community and the current elapsed time of the project including construction and commencement of the factory production has also been realized. We intend to have a positive impact on Iran’s fragile environment. So, we have found a way so that development in the minds of people of this land is not synonymous with destruction and intensification of inequality. Exact understanding of “social responsibility” is one of these ways and not all of them. Our belief in Araz is to operationalize the people empowerment plan more than before and this will definitely be greatly welcomed by the people.
