Interview with Alireza Mobini, CEO of Shahkar Dorrin Carpet Company, Kashan
By: Kohan Textile Journal
In recent years, several new manufacturers have entered the machine-made carpet market across the Middle East and Africa, and Shahkar Dorrin Carpet Company stands out among them as a promising and rapidly growing enterprise. Led by a young, innovative management team, the company has quickly made its mark in both domestic and international markets, earning recognition for its strategic planning and dedication to excellence.
Expanding Production for Global Markets
Currently, Shahkar Dorrin produces 700 and 1200 comb carpets using four modern carpet weaving machines. Notably, one of the 700 comb lines operates exclusively for export, catering to the Gulf countries with custom sizes and designs. This export-focused approach highlights the company’s strong international orientation and adaptability to different market demands.
From Trading to Manufacturing Success
With deep roots in carpet trading, the founders of Shahkar Dorrin decided to transition into production, leveraging their market insight to guide new investments. Their approach blends creativity, efficiency, and a commitment to quality. The company’s roadmap includes expanding production capacity, introducing new collections, and strengthening export operations.
In this exclusive interview, Mr. Alireza Mobini, CEO of Shahkar Dorrin Carpet Company, shares his insights on growth strategies, innovation, and the future direction of the brand within Iran’s dynamic carpet industry.
Please tell us more about Shahkar Dorrin Group and its history.
Shahkar Dorrin Carpet Group was founded in 2000 with the establishment of a trading group to sell and purchase machine-made carpets, and since 2009 the company has been developed as a machine-made carpet production in the industrial town of Fath al-Mubin in Kashan. The company is currently able to serve all of the customers with a capacity of 4 weaving machines. The company have also been managing its business unit beside the production unit, and today we are one of the leaders in carpet industry.
What are the next 5 year plans of Shahkar Dorrin Group, considering the market situation?
According to the 5-year plan that has been defined for the future of the company, Shahkar Dorrin Group plans to move towards luxury carpets and continue to export carpet in the next 5 years. This is the sixth year that we are among the Iranian textile candidates. Our 5-year map is to have a continuous presence in all exhibitions to show the art and craft of both Iran and especially Kashan.
What is your vision for Shahkar Dorrin Group?
Given the vision I have as the CEO of the company, we can increase the number of our sales representatives in current cities and also entering into other countries markets in the next 5 years. To achieve this goal, we have made a plan in the production unit as well as a design unit to be able to provide collections and colors specific to these regions and countries as soon as possible. In this way, we can increase the export market and continue our success.
What are your plans for participating in international exhibitions such as Domotex for the next few years?
Shahkar Dorrin Company have not participated in the Domotex exhibition yet, but I personally have visited five Domotex exhibitions and all of their sister events in Turkey and China. In 2020, we were planned to register the company for 2020 Domotex Gaziantep exhibition, but it was completely cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.
What are the current products of your collection? Both in terms of reeds and density, and classic and traditional design?
Our company has two 700-reeds and two 1200-reeds carpet weaving machines. One of our 700-reeds machines is used for producing Versace collection to export to the countries around the Persian Gulf. 700-reeds carpet with 2550, 3000 and 1200 density of light pallet and Tabriz pallet with 1600 density of 1600 are among our productions.
Which countries do you export to?
Given that we have not defined any limitations in the production and design unit, we have been able to export to 17 countries yet and we hope to increase this number to 5 more countries during the next year.
Do you have any plan for online sales?
In my opinion, the culture of online carpet sale is not widespread in Iran right now and it takes a lot of time to do online sales in large scale because the customer wants to make sure about the quality of the carpet by touching and observing the material closely. For this reason, there is a long way to go to the large scale of online sales today, but we are one of the leaders in introducing our products via Instagram, Facebook, and other social networks. As the manager of this collection, I believe that only introduction of the products in the virtual world can be very good and effective for the sales and production of the company.
Given the economic situation of the society, is your focus more on the foreign market or the domestic market?
We have planned with the sales unit to increase the volume of production for the domestic market. It is wrong to ignore domestic sales because it is one of the best markets for machine-made carpets in Iran. But sanctions caused decreasing the purchasing power of people, which, in God’s willing, it will get better in the coming years. We are more interested in the domestic market because it is valuable and powerful.
About Shahkar Dorrin Carpet:Â
Industrial complex, SHAHKAR DORRIN CARPET COMPANY, started its economic activity from 2006 A.M and succeed to establish it in area with 10.000 square meters in SOLEYMAN SABAHI industrial town.
Due to changing the culture of consuming between people and by applying experiences of the elders of this industry and with maximum efforts of manager’s and personnel, the art of hands and the use of finest fibers are mixed with the process of utilizing new and modern technology of weaving looms and caused to produce the best quality of machine-made carpets and to distribute them in domestic and global markets by employing a professional team of carpet designers and applying high cares and attentions on selection of most beautiful designs and an attractive pallet of colouring on the basis of taste of new-fashioned people. And finally, this process causes we gain faithfulness and trust of our respectable customers about our products, so nowadays 36 countries have been considered as an export arena of products of this company.
The executives and managers of SHAHKAR DORRIN CARPET COMPANY are proud to mention: we are not among the first-established companies, but we are the best about quality. The criteria of the company are to support customers from first moment till the end in name of Customer-Orientation. At the end, we hope to be known as a premium exporter of high quality of Persian products to all over the world in the coming future.
Products of this company are as below: *700 reeds carpets in density 3000 picks/meter, in 10 colors *1200 reeds carpets in density 3600 picks/meter, in 8 colors, High-bulked, In two collection of LIGHT and NAEIN And in close future, *1500 Reeds carpets in density 4500 picks/meter, High-bulked.
