Sumykhimprom is a chemical industry plant based in

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that produces mineral fertilizers, coagulants and additives to cement, acid, titanium dioxide and pigments, and other types of chemical products. The plant is operated by PJSC "Sumykhimprom", a public joint-stock company which owns a large energy-chemical complex, the industrial site of which occupies 226 hectares. The plant is located in the southern part of the city of

. The industrial complex consists of 11 main workshops, 20 auxiliary workshops, and 7 units of non-industrial groups (catering plant, sanatorium-dispensary, etc.) PJSC "Sumykhimprom" has the status of a basic enterprise of the

chemical industry The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. The ...

for the production of phosphate mineral fertilizers. The company also takes care of a basketball club of the same name and a joint volleyball team with

Sumy State University Sumy State University (SumDU) is a higher educational institution in Sumy, Ukraine. It enrolls about 12,000 students pursuing pre-undergraduate, undergraduate, specialist, and master degrees in 55 majors and 23 fields. About 1,900 foreign stude ...

named «Khimprom-SumDU». On 21 March 2022, during the

battle of Sumy The battle of Sumy was a military engagement which began on 24 February 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, as part of the Northeastern Ukraine offensive, and ended on 4 April 2022 when Russia withdrew all of its forces from Sumy ...

, a Russian airstrike damaged one of the ammonia tanks at the Sumykhimprom plant, contaminating land within a 2.5 km radius including the villages of Novoselytsia and Verkhnya Syrovatka. Due to the direction of the wind, the city of

was largely unaffected despite its proximity to the leak.

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