History
1916 - Perm Chemical Plant was founded. The chamber-type sulfuric/nitric acid shop was commissioned.
1920 - Construction of the superphosphate shop was started.
1923 - The in-house laboratory was founded to control the raw materials, the finished products, and the IM.
1923 - The superphosphate shop was brought into service. The blue-collar staff of the factory amounted to 100 persons. The factory produced 1500 tons of sulfuric and nitric acid, 2263 tons of superphosphate.
1929 - A factory apprenticeship school was set up.
1936 - The CEC of USSR decreed Perm Superphosphate Plant to be named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
1940 - The yellow phosphorus shop was set up.
1941 to 1945 - Working people of the factory rallied with the rest of the nation to defend their motherland. 212 people volunteered for frontline duty during the first days of the war. A total of 430 factory people fought for their motherland. 54 people won the Order of the Red Star, 10 of them twice. Women and teenagers replaced those who went off to war. During the war, the factory premises were used to accommodate the machinery which was evacuated from Dorogomilovo Plant and Rubizhne Integrated Chemical Plant. It was installed in free spaces, in amenity/utility rooms.
1946 - The triphenylmethane dye shop was brought into service.
1949 - The manufacture of methyl benzenesulfonate which is used to produce medicines was founded.
1956 - The orthophosphoric acid manufacture was arranged.
1960 - The production of sodium monozinc phosphate and sodium polyphosphate was started within the phosphoric acid manufacturing system.
1962 - The Rassvet pioneer camp was brought into service.
1964 - The sodium hypophosphite shop was commissioned.
1965 - An unmatched department was constructed and brought into service, to produce extra-high purity materials which are used in semiconductor engineering.
1966 - The plant won the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. This order is the highest award for merits to socialist building and defence of USSR. On 17th May 1966, the People’s Commissariat decreed the factory to be renamed so as to include the name of the order: Perm Chemical Plant Named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze and awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
1967 - The Khimik stadium was built.
1969 - A boathouse was arranged.
1975 - The factory healthcare report was brought into service.
1977 - Construction of the phthalic-anhydride/fumaric-acid shop was started.
1978 - Leikonat, an unmatched rubber-to-metal adhesive was put into production.
1983 - A 400-bed factory dormitory was built.
1984 to 1989 - The Perm phthalic anhydride enters the world market.
1989 - Foreign economic ties were expanded, direct contacts made with foreign companies. The full factory retrofitting schedule was prepared.
As of 1st Jan. 1990 - the factory was engaged in manufacture of 75 finished products: 18 dyes, 23 organic half-products, 5 extrahigh-purity materials. It used 194 raw materials. The factory's products were consumed by more than a thousand of factories throughout the Soviet Union. About 30 products were delivered annually to Finland, Yugoslavia, Poland, Japan, China, and other countries of the world. The staff size was about four thousand people.
1970 to 1995 - The factory underwent retrofitting and conversion, the environment-unfriendly manufactures were wound up, namely: those of Yellow Phosphorus, Superphosphate, Sulfuric acid, Nigrosins and induline, Triphenylmethane dyes, Nitrobenzene.
1992 - The factory was privatized. The plant was renamed Kamtex JSC.
1993 - The phthalic anhydride manufacture was retrofitted and ramped up to 90 thousand tons per year.
1994 - Shop No. 1 was retrofitted, polyester resins were put into production.
1995 - The factory berth was built. Waterborne exportation of phthalic anhydride was arranged, using river-sea navigation vessels.
1997 - The DOP plasticizer was put into production.
1998 - The factory was retrofitted. Kamtex-Khimprom OJSC became the successor of Kamtex JSC (previously: Plant Named after S. Ordzhonikidze). The new factory comprised phthalic anhydride production and DOP plasticizer production and, later on, manufactures of consumer goods.
2003 - The millionth ton of phthalic anhydride was produced. The DOP manufacture was retrofitted and thus ramped up to 26 thousand tons per year.
2010 - The plant’s annual PA output achieved its historical peak of 83 thousand tons.
2012 - ISO 9001:2008-compliant quality management system was implemented.
2013 - A turbine generator was commissioned to produce in-house electric power from waste steam of phthalic anhydride manufacture.
2015 - The DOP manufacture was upgraded so it was ramped up to 1500 tons of DOP per month and suited to obtain a new plasticizer, DINP (diisononyl phthalate); the factory was recertified for ISO 9001:2008 compliance by auditors of Bureau Veritas Certification, one of the world’s largest conformance evaluators.
2016 - Steps were taken to reduce river water intake volume and sewage discharge to Kama River. To this end, the existing water-recycling system No. 2 was restored and connected to in-house and external heat-exchange equipment. A treatment station for the factory’s surface wastewater was commissioned.
2017 - Сonstruction of a combined chemical water treatment plant for the purpose of releasing the chemical water treatment equipment for the production of phthalic anhydride for treatment facilities for issue № 1.