[2][3] It was founded on the initiative of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, who made significant contributions to the industrial development of Upper Silesia.

[6][7] The silver and lead smelting plant at the site of the former Donnersmarcks' hammer mill in Piaseczna [pl] (German: Piassetzna)[8] near Tarnowskie Góry (German: Tarnowitz)[9] was built by the Prussian government on the initiative of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden in just six months in 1786.

Initially, charcoal was used as fuel, which was gradually replaced with coke produced on-site from around 1790 to reduce production costs and achieve higher temperatures.

[12] Numerous processing plants were established in the vicinity of the smelter, including a factory for lead shot and sheet metal (owned by Giesches Erben [pl] since 1887), and a lead products factory founded in 1895 directly adjacent to the Fryderyk Smelting Works, owned by Bleiindustrie-Aktiengesellschaft vorm.

On August 26 of the same year, Chief of State Józef Piłsudski visited the plant and personally poured the first block of silver in the Polish smelter.

[16] On 16 March 1923, under the name Polish Treasure Lead and Silver Smelting Works in Strzybnica (Upper Silesia) Leased Company Tarnowskie Góry SA (abbreviated as Tarnoferme), the company was transferred to a corporation, half of the capital of which belonged to the treasury, and the other half to private French capital[17] (Mineraux et Métaux Paris).

[4] As a result, there was a limitation on the supremacy of state authorities over the smelter and practically no possibility of interference in the rights of the owners.

[18] A month after the establishment of the leased company, President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski visited the smelter.

[16] Around 1927, the management of the smelter included engineer Clemens Mülkay and former Minister of Internal Affairs Antoni Kamieński [pl].

The slag accumulated around the plant and the remnants of ores from the mining areas of Brzozowice, Cecylia, and Nowa Helena were purchased by the Giesche company.

During this period, production of machinery, equipment, steel structures, parts, and components for plants belonging to the Non-Ferrous Metals Mining and Metallurgical Union in Katowice was launched.

This included, among other things, reinforcements and shaft cages, overburden and underburden devices, buckets and mine carts, and conveyor belts for mining, flotation machines, and pumps for ore enrichment plants, coolers and pipelines for chemical plants, electrolytic tanks, foundry machines, and equipment for zinc rectification for smelters, as well as equipment for plastic processing of non-ferrous metals.

[23] On 5 July 1988, the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Manfred Gorywoda [pl], made an economic visit to the plant.

In 2004, the subsidiary in Bytom was incorporated into the company – a unit created based on the mechanical department of the former Zygmunt Iron Works [pl].

The transaction was worth 85 million PLN and resulted in the change of name to Zamet Industry Joint Stock Company.

[13][9] Two objects dating back to the expansion period of the plant in the early 20th century are now included in the Municipal Heritage Register:[27]