Through the endeavors of the new management team of Saipa Communications' Group, Iran's auto-writers were given the permission to visit every single place of the factory in Kashan.

A group of these writers were to set out for such a visit to the factory, departing from Saipa Communications' Center in Tehran at 4 p.m. while a second group was to reach Kashan separately the day after. The journalists showed up at about a quarter to 4 at the rendez-vous; a place which had not welcomed journalists for a couple of years.

The bus headed for Kashan at around 5. As the highway to Qom was jammed due to the rush hour traffic, the bus driver changed route from Azadegan Highway to Fat'h, which was apparently no better!

At around 10 p.m. the bus arrived at the journalists' accommodation in Kashan which was a newly built hotel with three-bed rooms. On arrival, the visit time for the coming day was announced to be at 9 a.m. .

The next morning the group which was composed of journalists and a number of the personnel of Saipa Communications' Group, set out for the factory with a bit of expected delay and arrived at the site at around 10 a.m. . A few minutes afterwards, those reporters who had moved out from Tehran that very morning joined us and the press conference was started with the participation of the head of Saipa Communications' Group and the managerial staff of Saipa Kashan in order to brief the attendants of the process of the factory.

In the meeting, the deputy manager of Saipa Kashan and the Stock Exchange manager of Saipa Company along with the head of Saipa Communications' Group replied to the questions made by the journalists.

Mr Mohammadreza Sheikh Attar, the deputy manager of Saipa Kashan, referred to the establishment of part-making units adjacent to the assembly lines and added that the investment which had been made in the region was a gargantuan movement which had activated many of Kashan's potentialities.

He also cited that the factory intended to manufacture 60 thousand Tiba cars and 90 thousand Pride cars and said that in the first half of the current year, approximately 14 thousand Tiba cats plus 489 thousand Prides have been produced.

Afterwards, Seyed majid Mousavi, the head of the Stock Exchange of Saipa announced Saipa Kashan's entrance into Farabourse in the TSE with its 10-percent shares, equal to 25 million shares as the newest Stock news of Saipa. He also added that it had been easier for them to enter Farabourse rather than the TSE.

The press conference ended at 12 and then there was the time to visit the fuslage production line wich covered an area of 28.5 thousand square meters, whose size was quite unprecedented by the journalists; a fuselage production which enjoyed a minimal amount of waste and an optimal level of precision. The production line worked incessantly in four parts and every now and then the welding sparkles which reached the ceiling would attarct the reporters' attention.

Among the advantages of robotic lines are speed, precision, delicacy and less expenditure plus more order and efficiency. Moreover, human error occur less in such lines, causing less time waste, less usage of raw material and fewer parts.

After the visit to the fuselage production line there was the time pay a visit to the assembly line in which Tiba and Saipa 111 were mounted up concurrently. The blue and clean floor surface of the salon along which yellow rods and orange and blue closets were fixed, drew one's attention. These were the lines on which the chassis, on which the workers were to assemble the parts, moved.

This was how the journalists watched the national automobile of Tiba and also Pride cars being produced from the time there were solely metal sheets until turned into compelte cars.

After the visit to the assembly line, the head of Saipa Communications' Group provided us with the chance to test Tiba on the factory's test track. A test which was quite interesting and attracted the journalists' attention to the durability of this car in difficult road conditions.

Once the test was over, it was time to return to Tehran. The reporters boarded the bus and on the way back their positive attitude to the overall modus operandi of Saipa Kashan was utterly evident.