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INEOS Group is the world's third largest chemical company consisting of some 15 businesses. Product lines include ethylene oxide-based specialty and intermediate chemicals, fluorochemicals used as refrigerants and propellants, and phenol and acetate products. INEOS Chlor makes chlor-alkali chemicals. INEOS Group was formed in 1998 after CEO Jim Ratcliffe, who controls the group, led a management buyout. It now operates more than 60 manufacturing facilities in 13 countries worldwide. Ratcliffe has placed INEOS among the world's top chemical companies (with ExxonMobil, Dow, and BASF) through his many and varied acquisitions.
INEOS Oxide is a leading producer of Ethylene Oxide and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives, Propylene Oxide and Propylene Oxide Derivatives, plus a range of solvents and specialty chemicals, with production facilities in Antwerp Belgium, Köln Germany, Lavéra France, Plaquemine Louisiana and Hull United Kingdom.
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INEOS takes a major step forward with the acquisition of TotalEnergies’ petrochemical assets at Lavera in Southern France
INEOS has signed a deal to acquire TotalEnergies’ 50% share of Naphtachimie (720 ktpa steam cracker), Appryl (300 ktpa polypropylene business), Gexaro (270 ktpa aromatics business) and 3TC (naphtha...
INEOS Secures €3.5 billion financing for Project ONE -The greenest cracker in Europe- at Antwerp, Belgium
Our ethane cracker will set new environmental standards for Europe as well as help revitalize the whole of the European chemical industry.
Construction ethane cracker INEOS Project One kicks off with sheet piling in Antwerp, Belgium
EUR 4 billion investment in Europe’s most sustainable ethane cracker enters construction phase and creates 450 jobs.
INEOS signs agreement with Plastic Energy for its largest plant to produce 100,000 tonnes of raw materials from plastic waste at Köln, Germany
The recycled material has already been successfully converted into virgin-quality polymer through the INEOS cracker at Köln, Germany, and used by selected customers and brands. Rob Ingram: “This is...
INEOS awards contract to Atkins to design its world scale low carbon hydrogen plant at Grangemouth,UK
The hydrogen plant, expected to be operational by 2030, will further reduce emissions from the site by 1million tonnes per year as the site targets net zero by 2045. In developing a hydrogen hub at...
INEOS at Grangemouth backs bid for Forth Green Freeport
In backing the bid for the Forth Green Freeport, INEOS recognises the important and significant role this region has to play in achieving the Scottish and UK Governments’ net zero targets.
INEOS invests in Brussels, Belgium a state-of-the-art technology to design recyclable flexible packaging film to prevent one million tonnes of waste going to landfill each year
The business will bring its polymer expertise to develop, design and produce new, recyclable flexible packaging films in partnership with converters, brands and retailers. The investment creates th...
INEOS in Köln receives state funding for Green Hydrogen feasibility study to cut CO2 by more than 100,000 tonnes per year at Dormagen, Germany
€770,000 Funding has been confirmed for the ChemCH2ange project. The INEOS project at Köln is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100,000 tonnes per year. INEOS green hydrogen ...
Indaver and INEOS Styrolution sign offtake agreement for recycled styrene monomer, new plant based in Antwerp, Belgium
Indaver’s depolymerisation plant to be the first of its kind in Europe.Agreement closes the loop for polystyrene - from yoghurt pot to yoghurt pot
Flemish Minister of Environment Zuhal Demir grants INEOS Olefins Belgium permit for Project ONE in Antwerp
Green light for construction of ethane cracker with lowest carbon footprint in Europe
Hydrogen fuel network trial gets underway with INEOS at Grangemouth, Scotland, UK
In January, INEOS announced the next step in its plans to build a world-scale low-carbon hydrogen plant at Grangemouth as it commits to being Net Zero by 2045.
INEOS awards Técnicas Reunidas the execution of a world scale ethylene plant in Antwerp, Belgium
The number of professionals that Técnicas Reunidas will mobilise for the development of the project will reach a peak of 450 people in Madrid plus other 225 people at the large-scale modules’ fabri...
INEOS Nitriles to invest in new world scale Acetonitrile plant at its Köln facility to meet European demand
Acetonitrile is a critical chemical in the production of existing pharmaceuticals as well as the development of new drugs such as those used to fight COVID-19. Acetonitrile is also a key component ...
Antwerp@C project takes a major next step towards halving CO2 footprint at Port of Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp@C has the ambition to support industries’ efforts towards a 50% CO2 emissions’ reduction within the Port of Antwerp by 2030 through the creation of a common CO2 infrastructure.
INEOS Styrolution starts ABS production in Wingles, France
The ABS production capacity in Wingles will be 50,000 tonnes per year, to help meet the increased demand for ABS in Europe in industries such as Construction, Compounding, Household and Automotive.
INEOS announces plans to construct a Low-Carbon Hydrogen Manufacturing Plant at Grangemouth
Investment in hydrogen plant underpinning to deliver emissions savings of more than 60% across the site by 2030
INEOS announces plans to construct a Low-Carbon Hydrogen Manufacturing Plant at Grangemouth, UK
Investment in a world-scale low-carbon hydrogen plant is the cornerstone of the site’s Road Map to Net Zero, underpinning a commitment to deliver emissions savings of more than 60% across the site ...
Ineos And Petroineos Partner With Plastic Energy in An Important Breakthrough In The Recycling Of Plastic At Grangemouth,UK
The process will use existing refinery operations replacing oil with TACOIL made from waste flexible food packaging to remake virgin plastic for reuse in food and hygiene applications. This trial a...
INEOS Styrolution confirms its investment decision for Europe’s first polystyrene advanced recycling pilot plant in Swindon, UK
Project in joint collaboration with Recycling Technologies, UK. Europe’s first advanced chemical polystyrene recycling facility is expected to be operational in the second half of 2022
INEOS green hydrogen project accelerates towards net-zero future in Koln, Germany by 2045
INEOS plans to build a large-scale, 100MW electrolyser to produce green hydrogen at the Koln site in Germany.
Ineos completes sale to WeylChem of Sulphuric Acid and Oleum production site is in Bilbao, Spain.
Spain’s Largest Dedicated Manufacturer of Sulphuric Acid and Oleum. Our production site is in Bilbao in Northern Spain.
INEOS Olefins Belgium submits comprehensive environmental permit application for Europe’s most environmentally friendly steam cracker in Antwerp Belgium
Project ONE’s ethane cracker resets the benchmark for steam crackers within the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) raising the bar for older less efficient crackers that will have to either re...
INEOS Styrolution plans to build a demonstration polymerisation plant for production of ABS plastic from recycled feedstock in Antwerp, Belgium
Plans are part of the “ABSolutely Circular” project. Project is supported by the EU LIFE programme. Technology partners welcome to join
Ineos reschedules Antwerp olefins project
INEOS confirmed today that it is rescheduling its plans to build Project ONE in Antwerp, the largest investment in European chemistry in the past 25 years.
INEOS to acquire BP's global aromatics & acetyls business
INEOS has announced its intention to acquire BP’s global Aromatics and Acetyls business for a consideration of $5 billion. The business consists of 15 sites across the world (5 in the Americas, 2 i...
INEOS and PLASTIC ENERGY to collaborate on new advanced plastic recycling facility
Waste plastic will be diverted from landfill, incineration and the environment. The project reaffirms INEOS’ commitment to the circular economy. Advanced recycling takes waste plastic and re-makes ...
INEOS announces plans to build a fourth hand sanitiser plant.
New plant to open within the next ten days in Etain, North East France. INEOS also announces that it has delivered on its ten day promise and has started French production of one million bottle...
INEOS to build a third hand sanitiser factory in France in 10 Days, to manufacture 1 million bottles per month
INEOS will build a factory in France to produce 1 million bottles per month in 10 days. It is already building the same in Germany and the United Kingdom. The company plans to focus on the needs of...
INEOS to build hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough in 10 days to make 1 million bottles per month
INEOS is Europe’s largest producer of the two key raw material needed for hospital grade hand sanitiser at its sites in Grangemouth, Scotland and in northern Germany. We produce almost 1 million to...
Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles break ground on new facilities in Germany
Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles have broken ground on new facilities to be built at INEOS’ Köln site in Germany. The units will produce raw materials for Nouryon’s high-quality, biodegradable chelates, ...
INEOS opens its new advanced polymer pilot plant in Rosignano, Italy, to produce new plastics from increasingly higher levels of waste plastic.
The new plant enables plastic waste to be diverted from landfill or incineration and instead transformed into new valuable polymers. The plant creates a more circular and sustainable approach to pl...
Fluor Awarded INEOS Front-End Design for New Processing Plant in Saltend, UK
Fluor announced that it was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for INEOS’ new processing plant at the Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK. The plant will produce 300,000 metric tons...
INEOS Phenol is to build a world scale Cumene unit at Marl, Germany
The new 750,000 tonne plant will support future customer demand and improve the security of supply for INEOS plants in Gladbeck and Antwerp. The unit will be a fully integrated cumene plant, making...
INEOS selects lead engineering contractor for its state of the art propane dehydrogenation unit
INEOS has today announced the next step forwards in the design and build of its state-of-the-art PDH (propane dehydrogenation unit) at the centre of its €3bn investment to be located at its Antwerp...
INEOS Styrolution to build a production site for its successful composite StyLight®
INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announces today that it is planning to set up a new production site for its successful composite StyLight®. StyLight® is INEOS Styrolution’s aesth...
INEOS to invest £1 Billion in UK
INEOS will invest £500 million in the Forties Pipeline System, prolonging the life of the North Sea’s main oil and gas artery into the 2040s. INEOS will invest £350 million at Grangemouth in a new ...
First production of isobutene from wheat straw at demo scale
New phase for the H2020 Optisochem project after 18 months of activity. Sugars from wheat straw produced at Clariant’s Sunliquid® pre-commercial plant have been shipped to Global Bioenergies’ Leuna...
INEOS announces mega-investment in port of Antwerp
INEOS plans to build a brand-new propane dehydrogenisation (PDH) plant and an ethane cracker. INEOS has chosen the port of Antwerp as the location for a mega-investment of 3 billion euros represent...
INEOS is to invest £60 million in the UK to expand production at its Grangemouth site
INEOS O&P UK has issued the contract to build an extension to the current nine furnaces with the addition of a tenth furnace. The project is made possible because of US ethane, which has been funda...
INEOS Announces €2.7 Billion investment in new European Chemical Complex
INEOS commits to building a new world scale chemical cracker and PDH plant in North West Europe. The €2.7 billion is the biggest capital investment ever made by INEOS. This is the first cracker to ...
INEOS Styrolution invests in Wingles site to meet growing demand for ABS
New 50,000 tonnes ABS production line is planned to be operational in 2020. New European ABS production setup allows for production of a broad ABS portfolio to meet growing customer demand for ABS...
INEOS Oxide announces plans to build a new Ethylidene Norbornene (ENB) plant
This would represent a second ENB asset for INEOS joining the existing production unit in Antwerp Belgium, itself the subject of a recently announced capacity expansion due to be complete by late 2...
INEOS Phenol plans investment in a world scale Cumene plant at Marl, Germany
The new plant will support customer demand and improve security of supply for INEOS plants in Gladbeck and Antwerp.The plant will use existing pipeline connections between INEOS’ Phenol & Acetone p...
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals signs co-operation agreement with INEOS Nitriles to expand chelates production
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and INEOS Nitriles have signed a long-term co-operation agreement that will allow AkzoNobel to expand its production of biodegradable chelates, utilizing one of INEOS ...
INEOS announces progress on VAM project in Europe
A MOU has been signed with an as yet unnamed commercial partner and FEED studies have commenced.
INEOS to spend hundreds of millions of Euros building a new 300kt Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) plant
VAM is an essential building block in the production of many diverse products including paints, windscreens, high performance films, car fuel tanks, PVC and adhesives. The global VAM market continu...
INEOS Phenol plans investment in a world scale Cumene unit in Germany
The new plant will support customer demand and improve security of supply for INEOS plants in Gladbeck and Antwerp. Proprietary Cumene Technology from Badger has been selected
INEOS Plans Massive European Expansion Programme
INEOS is looking at sites across Europe including Antwerp in Belgium for its new world scale 750,000 tonne PDH plant. INEOS is planning to increase the capacity of its crackers at Grangemouth in Sc...
Kilfrost Improves European Winter Resilience
Kilfrost, will begin manufacturing its aircraft de- and anti-icing products, from its state-of-the-art plant in Antwerp, Belgium increasing the security of supply of their safety critical frost pro...
INEOS announces multi-million pound investment at its Hull Manufacturing plant
The first major UK investment decision since BREXIT vote. Shale gas economics will give Hull plant an additional competitive advantage. “We believe in British manufacturing and will support it when...
The Grangemouth shale gas revolution moves closer to reality
The second manufacturing unit at Grangemouth’s KG ethylene plant is brought back to life eight years after being mothballed. INEOS completes successful operational trials as it prepares to receive ...
INEOS signs agreement with ExxonMobil Chemical Limited and Shell Chemicals Europe BV to supply ethane from US shale gas from Grangemouth to the Fife Ethylene Plant in Scotland
The Fife plant will receive ethane from INEOS’ new import terminal in Grangemouth, Scotland. Access to this new source of feedstock will help complement supplies from North Sea natural gas fields. ...
Grangemouth £300 million Survival Plan reaches latest milestones
Heads of Terms signed on new ethane import facility Old Plants from the sixties being retired with all staff redeployed Grangemouth CEO says: "These are very positive developments for Grangemouth...
INEOS Oxide has expanded its Ethylidene Norbornene (ENB) plant in Antwerp
INEOS is increasing its capacity to 28,000 tonnes. This expansion makes the INEOS plant the largest single ENB plant in the world.
Solvay and INEOS join forces to create a world-class PVC producer
Solvay and INEOS today announce that they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to combine their European chlorvinyls activities in a proposed 50-50 joint venture with combined sales of EUR 4.3 bn.
INEOS Oxide Antwerp investment in deep sea Ethylene Terminal
INEOS Oxide confirms its plans to build and operate a new one million tonne, deep-sea Ethylene Terminal, to be constructed at its Zwijndrecht Facility. The operation of the new deep-sea terminal, w...
INEOS Enterprises doubles Biodiesel production in Baleycourt
INEOS Enterprises hopes to double its biodiesel production capacity at its site in Baleycourt, Verdun (France) by 2008, from 110,000 tons per year to 220,000.
INEOS Chlor awards FEED contract for new UK chlor-alkali plant
INEOS Chlor Ltd. awarded a front-end engineering and design contract for an undisclosed sume to Aliso Viejo, Californian based Fluor Corp. for a new chlor-alkali plant to be built at INEOS Chlor's ...