The second international Iran Plastic and Rubber Show (Iran Plast) will be held in 10-14 December 2003 at the Tehran International Permanent Fair Grounds.
The first Iran Plast was held last year where 232 local and 72 foreign exhibitors from 18 countries put their products on display. For this year Iran Plast, 154 foreign and 232 domestic companies have registered. The show covers the following four sections: raw material, machinery and equipment, semi-finished & finished products and engineering and technical services. Total exhibition area at Iran Plast 2003 is 11,000sqm.
The event's foreign sponsors include Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds manufacturers (Assocomaplast), Korea Plastic Processing Machinery Industry Cooperative (KPPMIC), Turkish Plastics Industry Association (PAGEV) and Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.





Representatives from NPC took part at the 38^th European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) Conference in Monaco, France where they held talks with petrochemical companies and reviewed the global trend of petrochemical markets and prices. They also met with companies who were interested to source their required petrochemical products via NPC's commercial subsidiary, PCC. They were particularly curious to enter into contracts with PCC for products including benzene, paraxylene, methanol, toluene, ethanolamines, high and low density polyethylene (hdPE/ldPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), acrylonitryl butadiene styrene (ABS), ethylene, naphtha and LPG.
Several major companies from Europe, China, Japan, Pakistan, Libya, Russia, Taiwan, India and Singapore showed interest to continue and expand existing commercial ties with PCC, while new clients expressed readiness to begin cooperation on the basis of long-term contracts as well as bonded warehouse transactions.
The 37^th EPCA conference was attended by European and non-European petrochemical company officials.



NPC took part at an exhibition, which was held on the sidelines of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Putrajaya, Malaysia. NPC delegates conducted negotiations with companies from the Islamic countries over possible supply of petrochemical products and joint investment in NPC projects.
PCC signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with a major Malaysian company to sell petrochemical products to the company. The LOI covers a wide-ranging list of products.