[Nov 05, 1937]
Berdyansk Cracking Plant of Fuel Industry People's Commissariat

[Sep 02, 1940]
Osipenko State Union Cracking Plant of USSR OIPC

[Mar 14, 1944]
State Union Plant # 276 of USSR OIPC

[Apr 18, 1947]
Osipenko Cup Grease Works of USSR Minnefteprom

[May 24, 1957]
Osipenko Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant of USSR Glavneftesbyt Oil-and-Lubricant Plants Trust

[Oct 30, 1958]
Berdyansk Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant of Zaporozhye Council of National Economy

[Feb 27, 1963]
Berdyansk Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant of Pridneprovsk Council of National Economy

[Jan 07, 1971]
Berdyansk Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant of USSR Minneftehimprom with Order of the Red Banner of Labour

[Dec 23, 1994]
Open Joint-Stock Company "Azov Greases and Oils" ("AZMOL")

The Company's History

Open Joint-Stock Company "AZMOL" is a developing enterprise manufacturing lubricating greases, oils, cutting fluids, technological agents, alkyd pentaphthalic enamels and varnishes. Its history dates back to 1930-s.

Berdyansk Cracking Plant was founded on the Azov Sea coast and in 1937 it started to produce petrol for military aviation. Since then the Plant has rapidly been increasing its production capacities.

Since 1947 the Plant has been retrofitted for production of lubricants and step by step it has become a leading enterprise of petrochemical industry - Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant. It was called Berdyansk Pilot Oil-and-Lubricant Plant (BONMZ) till 1994. New lubricants manufacturing for VOLGA Autoworks (VAZ) was an important milestone in the Plant's life.

In 1960 the shop of synthetic fatty acids began its work. It was for the first time in this country and it worked for 30 years.

In 1991 Ukraine became an independent country, but the Company managed to launch new products under complicated circumstances. In 1992 they set up manufacturing of motor, hydraulic and refrigerator oils the percentage of which in today's AZMOL production volume makes 70 %.