Introduction
Development and advancement in each industry require continuous fundamental and applicable research and its implementation in industry. Generally, academic research cannot turn into technology instructions as far as working conditions at laboratories are not the same as actual situation in industry. In most developed and high-tech countries, in order to use the results obtained through academic research, some centers have been established in which equipped with pilot lines and conduct numerous experiments to extract the required technology instructions in industry.
Steel industry is one of the mother industries in which technology development requires a research center to turn the academic and theoretical research into technology instructions which have the same parameters as production line processes.
In our country regarding ever- increasing growth and the amount of investment in steel industry, in case the activists in steel area are looking for a vivid and sustainable prospect in this industry, with no doubt, they will approve the existence of such centers in the country and they will consider it as required infrastructures for improving this industry.
Fortunately, thanks to the Iron and Steel Society of Iran and a number of large steel companies, this center named SAHAND Middle East Iron and Steel Technology and Research Company with the written abbreviation of MISTR was established in May 2017.