Iran-based Mobarakeh Steel Company (MSC) has exported 1.793 million tonnes of products during the year to March 19, said a report citing a senior official.

MSC is Iran's biggest industrial complex and the biggest crude steel producer in the Middle East.

The company had set an export target of 1.5 million tonnes of products last year but the company managed to export more than that amount thanks to the efforts put in by its staff, the company's deputy managing director for sales and marketing affairs Mahmoud Akbari was quoted as saying in an Iran Daily News report.

Akbari added that more than 65 per cent of MSC's products were exported to European markets.

The company mainly exports to Europe, Middle East, Far East and Africa, but recently it has successfully entered new markets such as Morocco and Algeria in Africa, Poland in Eastern Europe and Turkmenistan in Central Asia, he added.