VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Novomoskovsk Joint Stock Company Azot is the leading chemical company in the Tula Region and one of the largest European bulk chemical companies.
Azot is Russia's oldest chemical company. The mass production of ammonia using coke began here in December 1933. In 1936, chloride production using local salt deposits was launched.
In 1958, Azot began producing ammonia and mineral fertilizer from natural gas. In the 1970s and 1980s, large ammonia and mineral fertilizer production units began operation, thus making Azot the Soviet Union's major ammonia and nitric fertilizer manufacturer.
In December of 1992, the state enterprise Novomoskovsk Production Association Azot was transformed into the Novomoskovsk Joint Stock Company Azot. In 2002, Azot was incorporated in the managing company EuroChem.
The modern production facilities at Azot employ cutting-edge technologies and equipment, and production is highly mechanised and automated. Every ninth ton of Russian ammonia and nitric fertilizer is produced here.
Azot's products are in demand in the Central and Southern Federal Districts. A larger portion of products is exported to the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltic states.
The number of employees totalled 4,334 at the beginning of 2009, with an average monthly salary of 25,101 roubles. Azot has no back-owed wages or setbacks in mandatory insurance premium payments to the budget and non-budgetary fundsThe main focus of Azot's development is upgrading and modernising its operating production facilities.
Azot was the first Russian company to use international technology to produce calcium nitrate, a knowledge-intensive and highly profitable product. For this purpose, the plant's mineral fertilizer production facility is being reconstructed and fitted with cutting-edge equipment. The expected capacity of the new production facility is 420,000 metric tons annually.
In 2009 EuroChem launched a multi-year project to dismantle closed, low-tech and obsolete facilities at the Azot complex, and to build an industrial park and high-tech production facilities in their places. A total of 150 million roubles has been allocated for the development of one 15-hectare site this year.
