ABOUT METAFRAX CHEMICALS
Our history
23 June 1941
Council of People Commissars of USSR made a decision to construct in Gubakha nitrogen-fertilizer plant, based on which shall be created a chemical production of the evacuated enterprises
July 1941
Trains with equipment started to arrive in Gubakha
1942 – 1943
The warehouses, dwellings, communal houses, oxygen-accumulating station, walls of several buildings, the basement for foundations of the boiler house are made. Due turning point of the Great Patriotic War in 1943 the enterprise construction was timely suspended, the employees were shifted to the territory cleaning for Severny: future settlement for chemical specialists
September 1945
The enterprise construction was resumed. It was decided to change the orientation of the enterprise from nitrogen-fertilizer to chemistry. Enterprise equipment was brought from Germany as per the law on reparations. In 1945-1946 at the construction site in Gubakha 1342 trains arrived
14 April 1949
Gubakha chemical enterprise representative has issued an order, which was a start for creation of the auxiliary plants. In this period 159 employees worked on the enterprise
1951
USSR chemical industry ministry made a decision to start-up in Gubakha chemical enterprise of the pilot plant for toluene production
15 July 1952
In official documents of the Gubakha chemical enterprise for the first time appeared the word “methanol”
August 1952
Started for operation the pilot plant for toluene production