The story
The decision on construction of a chemical plant in Police, dealing with production of mineral fertilisers was taken in 1964. The chemical plants were located between Police and the village named Jasienica. The construction of the chemical compound was performed in 1964–1970, on 22 July 1969, the first production department was launched – the production plant of sulphuric acid. In 1970, three production plants were commissioned: of sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid and fertiliser. The plants in Police as one of the first in the country produced compound fertilisers (NP). In the next years, the plant producing sodium fluorosilicate and 2nd plant producing phosphoric acid were opened. In the mid-70’s, it was possible to produce a three-component fertiliser NPK. In 1977, Zakład Bieli Tytanowej was commissioned.
At the same time, the logistics base of the plants was developed, e.g. by opening a barge port at the Gunica River. In the 80’s the investments within the construction of the production complex were performed: ammonia and urea production was started as well as the plant generating sulphuric acid was opened with annual production capacity of 500 thousand tons. The production of the first three-component fertiliser was started in plants in Police.
Since 30 December 1995, the plants in Police started their activity under new name – Zakłady Chemiczne “POLICE” S.A. The shares of the Plants in Police debuted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in July 2005. Since autumn 2011, they are a part of Grupa Azoty. In March 2015, it was decided to construct the installation for production of propylene with PDH method in the scope of the POLICE 2 project. The estimated value of the investment is over PLN 1.7 million.
From Wikipedia’s article on Grupa Azoty POLICE, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4