zahra shafii hebarari of radio and television. the managing director of khuzestan steel company announced the opening of the zamzam 3 sponge iron factory next week and said: "the torch of this factory has been lit and it will soon enter the production cycle." mr. amin ebrahimi added that the power of 355 knowledge-based companies was used for the construction of this factory and about 8 thousand billion tomans were spent. one of the raw materials needed to produce steel ingots is sponge iron. the production of sponge iron is the result of iron ore recovery operations. the operation is to be carried out in the new zamzameh 3 factory with a capacity of one million and 700 thousand tons of iron per year. the sponge produces iron oxide from through this conveyor belt that you see in the picture, approximately 83 meters long, it gradually enters the furnace and is regenerated due to contact with hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases. by changing the production parameters, it has the ability to upgrade the super mega module with a capacity