Brief history of SIMCO:

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In 1968, SIMCO acquired the license for producing wires & cables.  Our production started with Low Voltage underground power cables up to 4x50mm² in our Old Karaj Road facility near Tehran.  In 1975, a joint venture was made with LM Ericsson of Sweden and a new plant was built on  150,000m² of land in the city of Rasht (Guilan province) in northern Iran.  By purchasing and installing new machinery, the production capacity increased from 150 tons to 15,000 tons per year.  During that time, the company was manufacturing all types of  Telecom cables without  Jelly and  Low Voltage cables (armored & unarmored) up to 4x300mm² in accordance with the  Iranian standard (ISIRI), British standard (BS), German standard (VDE), International Electro Technical Commission (IEC), etc...  In 1993, the joint venture was dissolved and in 1995 SIMCO purchased new equipment for producing Medium and High Voltage underground power cables.  In 1997, we produced a 20 kV Medium Voltage cable, in 1998 a 33 kV and at the end of the same year a 63 kV cable was produced for the first time in Iran by SIMCO.  The cable was sent for the Type Test to KEMA High Voltage Laboratory in Netherlands.  SIMCO successfully obtained a certificate from KEMA Nederland B.V. for TYPE TEST CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETE TYPE TEST for 1x500mm² 63 kV in accordance with IEC 60840.  Presently, SIMCO remains the only manufacturer of High Voltage Power cable in IRAN.