The Mehr News Agency reported that the factory’s construction started six years ago at a cost of $300 million with a capacity to produce 180,000 tons of glass annually.
The factory will produce 120,000 square meters of glass daily with a thickness of 1.2 to 19 millimeters.
The project will create a total of 7,550 direct and indirect jobs.
The export of 30 percent of the factory’s products to European countries including Germany, France and the UK will earn them $25 million annually.
The second phase of the factory will be inaugurated in the next two years costing $150 million and creating jobs for 800 people.
Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, typically tin, although lead and various low melting point alloys were used in the past. This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and very flat surfaces. Modern windows are made from float glass.
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