Evaluation of Iranian Food Manufacturing and Processing Industries

Background: The Iranian Food Manufacturing and Producing Industries (IFMPI) were evaluated by the Iranian evaluator team according to the guidelines of the industrial projects before entering the full-scale implementation step. The current cluster study followed the objective of a similar research about evaluating the initial data of 57 various kinds of IFMPI in terms of energy, materials streams, and technical aspects. Methods: The present research took into consideration the assessment of initial data in the screening step of project identification to further processing via Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) models and developing a techno-economic assessment model empirically. Results: A good reliability (∝= 0.808) among the weight values in MCDM models confirmed a developed classification. The proposed economic assessment model is able to estimate the outlays for the screening step of IFMPI projects. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the present study executed IFMPI in input and output materials besides energy streams and placed them in the reliable ranking levels using MCDM models along with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).