Zaporizhzhya Abrasive Combined Works, Public Joint-Stock Company

Chairman of the Board - Anatoliy V. Bereza

Zaporizhzhya Abrasive Combined Works, Public Joint-Stock Company is one of the largest manufacturers of abrasives in Eastern Europe. It has a powerful industrial potential and its production process is based on up-to-date technologies.

The foundation of the company dates back to 1933, the year when the Dnipropetrovsk Corundum Plant was set up in the city of Zaporizhzhya. In 1945, according to the new project, the plant launched commercial production of electric corundum and abrasive tools. The name of the plant had been changed. It had turned into a plant manufacturing abrasive materials.

At present, the output capacity of the company ensures production of up to 24500 tons of abrasive tools of different brands meant for different purposes, featuring more than 1200 «type-and-size» characteristics. Presently, Zaporizhzhya Abrasive Combined Works is the largest manufacturer of boron carbide, hexagonal, graphite-like, wurtzite boron nitride

We deal with manufacturing of ferric alloys, finishing materials made of electric normal corundum and black silicium carbide, which are marketed both on the internal and external markets.

All the products of the enterprise are manufactured in accordance with the normative documents, drawn out in strict correspondence with the requirements of the State Standardization System of Ukraine and meet international standards. Glazing circles, glazing disks, edgeless glazing stripes are certified to be in correspondence with the safety norms of the Russian Federation Certification System.
Abrasive tools are produced corresponding to the requirements of international standards, namely: ISO 525 (glazing circles), ISO 2220, ISO 3920, ISO 3921 (glazing bar).
The goods for household purposes have hygienic certificates of the Russian Federation.

In 1992 the company, in cooperation with an Italian firm from Faenzi, launched a joint venture «Dniproceramics» specializing in production of sanitary faience-ware.

The company management plans to have mastered a number of progressive technologies, which will make it possible to dramatically increase the competitiveness of the manufactured items and enter the new upper level as far as the manufacturing of abrasive materials and tools is concerned.