Ostchem Holding

Ostchem Holding is a holding company that unites a group of chemical factories and supporting companies. In its turn Ostchem is a part of bigger Group DF that unites several separate enterprises and other holding companies and owned by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
On 20 December 2016 Ostchem announced about its mass layoffs.
Description.
It is among world leading companies in production of nitrate, ammonia, and urea. Ostchem made its mother company Group DF third biggest world producer of ammonia in the world in 2013 yielding only to Norwegian Yara International, American CF Industries and surpassing Canadian PotashCorp.
Ostchem includes smaller companies in production of nitrogen fertilizers, their distribution and transportation. Main products include nitrogen fertilizers such as ammonia, urea, ammonium nitrate, CAN (calcium ammonium nitrate), UAN (urea ammonium nitrate), and ammonium sulfate. Beside fertilizers, the factories of the company produce products of organic synthesis and organic acids (adipic and acetic acids, methanol, caprolactam (CPL), vinyl acetate, polystyrol).
Logistics.
Distribution of the products is realized through "UkrAhro NPK" that possess the biggest network of agrarian warehouses in Ukraine (accounts for 28).
Transportation of the products outside of Ukraine is conducted through a specialized marine terminal located in Mykolaiv and oscillated into a separate seaport "" at the northern tip of Dnieper-Bug Estuary.