According to local press reports, the Iranian Ehdas Sanat Company (ESC) has recently won a tender for setting up a cement factory with the capacity of 1 Mta in Syria with US$200m value. This was the first success in establishing a cement plant abroad. Ehdasse Sanat Corp (ESC) was founded in 1987 with the objective of playing a major role in Iran’s Cement and Building Materials Industries.