Industrial Metals

DylanGroup

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Netherlands
Sources

DylanGroup features on the official Iranian vendor website, “VList” – the ‘petroleum and energy vendor source search engine of I.R. Iran’

Power Anchor Limited

Country
Seychelles
Sources

Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. uses Power Anchor Limited, located in the Seychelles, as a front company to obfuscate the true Iranian end-user for metals-related materials shipped to Iran.  Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. has also used Power Anchor Limited to facilitate payments from Iranian steel companies for purchases of graphite electrodes used in metal production brokered by Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd.  Power Anchor Limited is designated pursuant to E.O. 13871 for being owned or controlled by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. (Treasury, "Treasury Targets Iran’s Billion Dollar Metals Industry and Senior Regime Officials," 1/10/2019).

Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd.

Industry
Industrial Metals
Sources

Since August 2019, Beijing-based trading company Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. has purchased tens of thousands of metric tons of steel slabs on a monthly basis from Iran’s Esfahan Mobarakeh Steel Company.

During 2019, Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. has sold multiple consignments of carbon blocks, cathode blocks, and graphite electrodes to Iranian minerals trading firm Khalagh Tadbir Pars Co. for shipment to Iran and use by Iranian metals producers.  Since August 2019, Khalagh Tadbir Pars Co. has purchased materials including carbon blocks and cathode blocks from Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. for ultimate end-use by the Iran Aluminum Company. 

Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. has also facilitated Khalagh Tadbir Pars Co.’s purchase of materials such as cathodes from Chinese manufacturers.  Additionally, in November 2019, Khalagh Tadbir Pars Co. and Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. coordinated the sale of Iranian copper concentrates to a Chinese purchaser.

Pamchel Trading Beijing Co. Ltd. is designated pursuant to E.O. 13871 for having knowingly engaged, on or after the date of the E.O. 13871, in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, steel, steel products, copper, or copper products from Iran, as well as for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or service in support of Khalagh Tadbir Pars Co. (Treasury, "Treasury Targets Iran’s Billion Dollar Metals Industry and Senior Regime Officials," 1/10/2019)

Corad Technology Limited

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Hong Kong
Contact Information

Unit 1306, 13/F, Nanyang Plaza 57 Hung To Road Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Room K, 5/F, Winner Factory Building No. 55 Hung To Road Kwun Tong Kowloon, Hong Kong [email protected]
[email protected]

Sources

Corad Technology Limited has been involved in the sale of U.S. technology to Iran’s military and space programs; (Source: Federal Register)

NBH Industries SDN BHD

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Malaysia
Contact Information

Level 20, Menara Standard Charter Bank, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sources

A Malaysia-based front company;

Controlled by Saeed Valadbaigi, an Iranian businessman under indictment in the United States for allegedly attempting to export nuclear nonproliferation-controlled materials from the United States to Iran;

From 2009 to 2012, was allegedly used by Valadbaigi in an attempt to transship controlled U.S.-origin 7075 T6 aluminum tubing (ECCN 1C202.a) and to transship 4130 steel and 9310 steel from Industrial Metals and Commodities (IMC) in Belgium through Malaysia to Iran without the required licenses; in 2009, was allegedly used by Valadbaigi to transship U.S.-origin titanium sheets through the Republic of Georgia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Malaysia to Iran without the required licenses;

Uses virtual office services provided by Servcorp, uses Servcorp’s Kuala Lumpur address in shipping forms;

In August 2012, was the subject of a post-shipment verification visit by a U.S. Department of Commerce Export Control Officer (ECO);

Conducts general trading and provides management services;

Incorporated in Malaysia in 2008, dissolved as of July 20, 2018; (Source: Federal Register)

Reynolds Group Holdings

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
USA
Sources

Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd. (a U.S. company) disclosed in 2016 that a UAE joint venture (of which it owned 50%) sold milk carton sleeves to an Iranian dairy company that was “majority-owned by a pension fund for certain civil servants in Iran and therefore may be indirectly controlled by the Government of Iran.”

Erne Fittings

Industry
Industrial Metals
States
TX
Country
Austria
Sources

Iranian oil, gas, petrochemical and power industries services company Petrokalooj cites Erne Fittings as a supplier on its website.

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Erne is advertised  as a participant in the 4th International Exhibition on Wire & Cable, Rod, and Tube Industry (“Iran Wire 2017”) that took place on December 6-9, 2017.

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"Every two years, Erne Fittings exhibits at Tube in Dusseldorf (Germany) and at Stainless Steel World in Maastricht (Netherlands), as well as annually at ADIPEC in Dubai (UAE). What's more, our senior managers visit trade fairs in a range of other countries, such as Iran and Singapore." 

Response

Response: "We hope, that we could convince You, Mr. Ambassador, that we have nothing to do with the telecoms sector, that we are not directly steering this trade initiative but just responding to an invitation of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and that we strictly observe all sanction rules of the US and the EU.”

Dafram

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Italy
Sources

Listed as an approved vendor in Iran by NIGC.

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 May 2017 - "Dafram’s representative at the Iran International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition (Iran Oil Show-2017) said his company is finalizing a deal with Ilam petrochemical plant for supplying big-size valves to the facility in the wake of removed sanctions on Tehran’s nuclear program. "

Continuus Properzi

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Italy
Sources

Continuus-Properzi is listed as an attendee at the 4th International Iran Aluminium Conference (the “Conference”) that took place on May 11-12, 2016 in Tehran. (Iran International Aluminium Conference Website, “Conference Overview”).

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States on its website - The second refining furnace, making use of a recent and patented design with charging door on the top and an automatized conveyor belt for loading the scrap into the furnace, will begin operation at Gil Rod Shomal Co. in Rasht - Iran.  Foreseen production is around 30,000 tpy of 8 mm (FRHC) copper rod by a Properzi System already successfully working with cathodes (to make ETP rod) at 12.5 tph.

TECO Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG

Industry
Industrial Metals
Country
Germany
Sources

Is represented in Tehran, Iran by  TECO / Avenza.

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TECO Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG (“TECO”) was listed as an exhibitor at the Internationale Ausstellung für Metallbearbeitung (International Exhibition for Metalworking Companies; “AMB Iran 2017”), which took place on May 23-26 in Tehran, Iran. (AMB Iran, “List of Exhibitors”).