Catalysts have been used in industries such as oil, gas and petrochemicals for hundreds of years, and many large industrial processes can only be performed with the help of catalysts. However, it was not until the 1970s that catalysts became known to the general public for their extensive development in environmental protection. Catalysts for cars, for example, are well known and widely used.

At the end of 1978, with the height of the Islamic Revolution, foreign experts in the oil industry gradually left Iran, and Iranian experts assumed their duties by enduring problems and dominated the oil industry and continued exploitation, unless strikes throughout the oil industry units It stopped or reduced its activities, and by the order of Imam Khomeini, internal activities continued for the comfort of the people.