[8] Qemetica, then known as the CIECH Group, was founded in Łódź, Poland in 1945 and currently consists of 8 manufacturing sites, in addition to trade and service businesses.

[15] In the following years, the company continued its operations, exporting its products to an increasing number of global markets.

The 1960s and 1970s brought the company successes on the sulphur market (when Polish "yellow gold" held the second place in the world in export of this raw material), nitrogenous fertilisers, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paints and varnishes.

[15] At the turn of the 1980s, at the beginning of the political transformation, CIECH was the largest foreign trade centre, with a monopoly for the delivery of oil to Polish refineries.

In the 1990s, at the time when the centre celebrated its 45th anniversary, CIECH held the 97th place in the top hundred leading companies of the world.

[15] Therefore, in the 1990s, the company initiated the process of building a capital group, concentrating major national manufacturing sites around itself.

[22] On 3 March 2024, the company was delisted from the Warsaw Stock Exchange after receiving permission from the Financial Supervision Authority.

[23] In November 2024, Qemetica signed an agreement to buy silicas products from Pittsburgh-based American company PPG Industries.