Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-Industry Co.
Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro-Industry Co. is a privately held company in Iran’s food sector. It has been privately owned since 2015 and is based in Tehran, with a major operation near Haft Tappeh in Khuzestan, close to Susa. The company provides housing for workers in the area. Omid Asadbeigi is the owner and CEO, and about 5,700 people worked there in 2020.
The company makes sugar and also produces alcohol, wheat and barley, kraft paper, industrial coal, molasses, and bagasse (the fiber left after pressing sugarcane).
History: Sugarcane farming in the area goes back a long time, but the company began official work in 1966. A Dutch group expanded facilities around 1969–1970 to a large capacity of 9,000 tons of cane sugar per day. In 1975 the company was officially registered to grow sugarcane and make related products. In 2012 a modernization project was awarded to the Industrial Renovation Company of Iran. Nearby industries use bagasse for paper and other products, and there is livestock feed and molasses production too.
Privatization and strikes: After privatization in 2015, workers faced worsening conditions. The Haft Tappeh Workers’ Syndicate organized strikes from 2017 to 2020 to win back pay, social security, medical coverage, job security, and to challenge privatization.
Key events: In 2018 a major strike lasted more than two weeks, and several workers were arrested, including representative Esmail Bakhshi. Some detainees were released, others remained in custody. Protests continued in 2019 and 2020 with demands for back wages, restored benefits, and the reversal of privatization. In 2020 workers held large demonstrations in Shush, and in late 2020 four labor activists were arrested after protests.
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