Evaluation of Iranian textile and leather industries

In 1932, the first leather manufacturing industry was established in Hamedan, Iran. The textile industry sets up in Iran about 3000 BC. Nowadays, both of aforementioned industries have appeared with a variety of technologies and facilities over the world. By current cluster study of Iranian Textile and Leather Industries (ITLI) the raw data have empirically come through of the decision-making techniques pertaining to main criteria and number of industries; rely on their nominal capacity. The initial resource of data used in present research gets back to the preliminary assessment of ITLI by both of Iranian industries organization and Iranian environment protection agency once before giving license to implement industries individually. SPSS and EXCEL 2013 software have used to process raw data. Using Vlse Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) and Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) resulted in two different kinds of classification for ITLI. The findings of input materials stream exploited energy and existing facilities in ITLI are introduced to identify the materials cycles, energy demand and machines, and devices employed in the subject of industrial ecology and industry 4.0, respectively.