“The northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province-based steelmaker’s previous output record was 127,128 tons registered in August 2013,” the company’s public relations also quoted Farshid Fazilati as saying. Khorasan Steel Company was established in 1989 by the giant Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel in the northeastern part of Nishapur County in Khorasan Razavi Province. The complex has a capacity to produce 550,000 tons of structural steel, 630,000 tons of billets and 1.6 million tons of direct-reduced iron per year.