SHANA - The plants operating in the western provinces of Iran yielded more output given the 30% rise in feedstock supply to them by West Ethylene Pipeline, a petrochemical official said.

Ali Mohammad Bossaqzadeh, director of production control at National Petrochemical Company (NPC), said the rise in feedstock supply to the plants during the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 21 gave rise to the output of the plants fed by West Ethylene Pipeline,��NPC reported.

As an example, he said, Kurdistan Petrochemical Plant operated at 117% of its nameplate capacity during the period.

Iran's petrochemical plants supplied 38 million tons of petrochemicals during the 9 months which shows a 14% rise in domestic sales and about 6% rise in exports of the items year-on-year.