achema industry fertilizers successor achemos grup founded 1962 1962 headquarters jonava lithuania revenue 2.3 bil . ltl 1 website www.achema.lt achema is the largest fertilizer producer in the baltic states . it is located in the city of jonava in central lithuania . in 2011 achema employed about 1700 workers and reached 2.2 billion litas revenues about 640 million euros net profit was 96.3 million litas 27.9 million euros . the current managing director is ar nas laurinaitis . 2 history edit the factory construction began in 1962 as one of the state owned enterprises of the lithuanian ssr . environmental catastrophe edit an explosion occurred in the chemical fertilizers factory on 20 march 1989 causing a leak of nearly 7 500 tonnes of liquid ammonia . the catastrophe developed further into a fire of nitrophoska and fertilizers storehouses polluting the atmosphere with products of their decomposition nitrous oxide chlorine gas etc. the toxic cloud moved towards ukmerg irvintos k dainiai . the concentration of ammonia surpassed the permissible level 150 times in upninkai located 10 km from the enterprise . one day after the accident a toxic cloud 7 km wide and 50 km long was recorded between jonava and k dainiai . seven people died during the fire and leakage of ammonia 29 became handicapped and more people suffered from acute respiratory and cardiac arrest . references edit top 1000 ltu the shareholders agreed on the succeeding achema group ceo . delfi.lt . coordinates 55 5 7 n 24 19 50 e 55.08528 n 24.33056 e 55.08528 ; 24.33056 this lithuanian corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this environmental disaster related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title achema & oldid 700141310 categories chemical companies of lithuania1989 industrial disasterscompanies established in 19621962 establishments in lithuaniacompanies based in jonavalithuanian company stubsenvironmental disaster stubshidden categories use dmy dates from february 2012coordinates not on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal e tinadeutschlietuvi edit links this page was last modified on 16 january 2016 at 17 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view