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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 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 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 ...