History
Before and now
- 1927 Państwowa Fabryka Związków Azotowych w Tarnowie (PFZA, State Works of Nitrogen Compounds in Tarnów) is established on the initiative of Ignacy Mościcki, the President of Poland.
- 1929 Completion of the Company’s construction; technological start-up of plants.
- 1930 Gala opening of the company with participation of state authorities - Ignacy Mościcki, the President and Kazimierz Bartel, the Prime Minister.
- 1931 Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski becomes the Managing Director of the Company.
- 1933 A merger of PFZA in Mościce and PFZA in Chorzów under the name of Zjednoczone Fabryki Związków Azotowych w Mościcach i Chorzowie (United Works of Nitrogen Compounds in Mościce and Chorzów).
- World War II The Company holds the name "Stickstoffwerke Moscice" and like before the war it manufactures nitrogenous fertilizers, chlorine products and other chemical products.
- 1948 Restart of production after regaining, reconstructing and assembling machines and compressors by Polish specialists.
- the 1950s Execution of a six-year economic plan. Inauguration of caprolactam production used for the manufacture of artificial fibers and plastics, modernization and intensification of caprolactam production.
- the 1960s The Plants of "Tarnów II" are created - acetylene from natural gas and carbide, chlorine plant, acrylonitrile and polycrystalline silicon, VC and PVC, enlargement of power plant.
- 1970s Modernization of the Company. Start-up of the gas synthesis plant for ammonia production, start-up of cyclohexanone production from benzene and cyclohexanone from phenol by one-stage method, intensification and modernization of synthesis plant and caprolactam purification. The Company becomes one of the biggest Polish producers of fertilizers, caprolactam, Tarnamid®, polyvinyl chloride, acrylonitrile, Tarflen® and methane chloroderivatives.
The beginning of the 1990s Restructuring of the company, starting the process of subsidiaries separation from the structure of the company.
- the 1980s Enlargement of many plants, including caprolactam plant.
- 1991 Transformation of the company into a joint-stock company.
- 1994 Adhesion to the “Responsible Care" programme.
- 1997 Receipt of SQM Certificate according to the standard of ISO 9002:1994.
- 2002 Receipt of SEM Certificate according to the standard of ISO 14001. The Company joins the Governmental Programme of Market and Product Restructuring and Consolidation and Privatization of Major Chemical Synthesis Sector.
- 2003 Modernization and intensification of the core business. Reaching an agreement with creditors. Adoption of a uniform “Management Policy” integrating environmental, quality and safety management. Receipt of the Quality Management System certificate ISO 9001:2000.
- 2004 Adoption of the updated strategy for Major Chemical Synthesis Sector and the path of its execution by the Polish Government – the path for ZAT S.A.: privatization of the whole company with participation of a sector investor.
- 2005 Beginning of the privatization process.
- 2006 Adoption of the updated strategy for Major Chemical Synthesis Sector and the path of its execution by the Polish Government – the path for ZAT S.A.: privatization through the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
- 2007 Works on the ZAT S.A’s Prospectus.
- 2008 Debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
- 2009 Execution, together with Mitsubishi Co., the project of nitrous oxide emission reduction from the nitric acid plant – the first Polish and Japanese Joint Implementations Project according to the recommendations of the Kyoto Protocol.
- 2010 Acquisition of 100% shares of a polyamide manufacturer - Unylon Guben Polymers GmbH / Germany. The new entity within the Group AZOTY Tarnów changed its name to ATT Polymers. Acquisition of 52.62% shares of ZAK SA.
Updated: 2011-01-17 10:05