Joint Stock Company Kamensky Glass Container Plant, one of the oldest enterprises in the glass industry of the Don, has been counting its history since August 2, 1913. It was on this day that the Regional Board of the Donskoy Army allowed the merchant Ivan Mikhailovich Nikiforov to build a soda-potash plant on his estate in the village of Kamenskaya.
Later, cheap soda and the surrounding sand and chalk deposits were used - they built a glass melting furnace, from which glass blowers manually began to produce glass for kerosene lamps on molds.
At present, Kamensky Glass Container Plant Joint-Stock Company is the leading company in Russia for the production of wide-necked glass containers of large containers and the only company in Russia for the production of frits and dry mixes for the ceramic industry.
A large amount of work to improve the condition of equipment, increase the technical level of production has been completed over the past ten years. Along with the overhaul of fixed assets during this period, certain types of equipment were updated, a cogeneration plant for the production of own heat and electricity was commissioned, automatic production process control systems were introduced, the machine shop was expanded and equipped with additional machine equipment. The packaging section was reconstructed with the introduction of a modern method of packaging glass cans into pallets, the fleet was updated, and additional facilities were built to store manufactured products.
The company has implemented a full cycle for the production of frits and mixtures from the development of unique individual formulas for each customer, laboratory and industrial tests, to industrial production and implementation of the product in the customer’s technological scheme.
KSTZ JSC was repeatedly awarded with diplomas for the high quality of products, the introduction of new technologies for the production of glass containers, and for the original solution to the design and construction of glass jars was awarded the First Class Diploma and a gold medal.
Glass is a material whose quality must be sought for years. Our qualified specialists with many years of experience improve the glass production technology from year to year, which allows us to provide our customers with high-quality products.