OJSC Beraton Today

Open Joint-Stock Company Beraton (Berezniki, the Perm region), one of the most important chemical producers in Russia and the CIS, traces its history back to August 18, 1939 when a chemical plant was established on the basis of rich resources of the Western Urals.

OJSC Beraton is located in the flood-plain of the Kama water storage 200 km to the north of the city of Perm, the regional center.

Our enterprise is a unique manufacturer of a number of chemical products in the Ural region, which gives it a special status and implies responsibility for production activities.

We have an advanced workable infrastructure, highly skilled specialists in all company departments and a certain position in the chemical market.

Our products are widely used in such key industries as:

• chemical,
• textile,
• pharmaceutical,
• metallurgical,
• metal mining,
• oil,
• engineering,
• tyre and rubber goods production.

OJSC Beraton is well-experienced in international trade and exports to the markets of Western and Eastern Europe as well as the Asia-Pacific region.

Main Characteristics

• Advantageous location in the industrialized region of the Western Urals due to the following:
  • Access to five seas via a system of rivers and canals (the Azov, the White, the Baltic, the Caspian and the Black Sea),
  • Developed transport infrastructure (automobile, rail and air communications),
  • State-of-the-art system of telecommunications;
• Total area — about 145 hectares;
• Number of employees – 1500;
• Complex of facilities for chemical and biological waste water treatment;
• Diversion facility for technical water and boiler plant for vapour and heated technical water production;
• Major products:
  • Organic intermediates and products such as aniline, diphenylamine, 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, picramic acid, etc.,
  • Organic synthetic dyes for cotton, staple viscose fibres and articles thereof,
  • Polymer additives: natural and synthetic rubber accelerators (zinc dimethyldithiocarbamate, zinc diethyldithiocarbamate, thiuram D, thiuram E, etc.), structuring agents, synthetic rubber stabilizers,
  • Flotation reagents (carbamate MN, potassium butyl xanthate, etc.) for treatment of copper-molybdenum, copper-nickel and other non-ferrous metal ores,
  • Inorganic products: sulfamic acid, magnesium oxide burned (used in rubber and tyre production and other applications).
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