History
 1890s |
Castner Kellner Alkali Co. Ltd started production of caustic soda at Runcorn, UK. |
| 1895 |
First production of formaldehyde in Mainz, Germany. |
| 1924 |
Grangemouth, UK oil refinery starts production. |
| 1933 |
Lavéra, France oil refinery starts production. |
| 1949 |
Start up of the Lavéra,France petrochemicals facility. |
| 1953 |
First naphtha cracker started in Lavéra. |
| 1954 |
Start up of Gladbeck phenol/acetone plant in Germany. |
| 1956 |
Start up of Bayer ABS Business. |
| HDPE production started at Rosignano | |
| 1957 |
Start up of the Erdölchemie GmbH petrochemical site at Köln, a 50/50 joint venture between BP and Bayer. |
| 1960 |
First commercialisation of ammoxidation process for acrylonitrile at Lima. |
| 1960s |
Installation of two state-of-the-art cell rooms at ICI Runcorn site for chlorine and caustic soda production. |
| 1966 |
Union Carbide construct ethylene derivatives site at Antwerp. |
| 1967 |
Chocolate Bayou site acquired by Amoco for petrochemical manufacture. |
| 1975 |
First gas phase polyethylene plant comissioned at Lavéra. |
| 1978 |
Antwerp site sold to BP Chemicals. |
| 1986 |
EVC formed through a 50:50 joint venture between ICI and EniChem. |
| 1990 |
ICI commission the world’s first HFC 134a plant. |
| 1992 |
ICI open the world’s largest HFC 134a plant at St Gabriel, Louisiana and the world’s first HFC 32 plant in the UK. |
| 1993 |
ICI and Teijin Limited joint venture to make KLEA™134a at Mihara, Japan. Start-up of Antwerp phenol / acetone plant. |
| KG cracker commissioned at Grangemouth. | |
| 1994 |
EVC floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. |
| 1998 |
INEOS formed to acquire the former BP site at Antwerp from INSPEC |
| 2000 |
Start up of Mobile phenol plant in Alabama, USA. |
| 2001 |
INEOS acquires Crosfield and forms INEOS Silicas. INEOS acquires ICI Chlor-Chemicals and forms INEOS Chlor. INEOS acquires ICI Klea and forms INEOS Fluor. INEOS acquires Dow Chemicals’ global ethanolamine and USA/Canadian GAS/SPEC™ gas treating amines businesses. INEOS acquires a majority shareholding in EVC. INEOS acquires Phenolchemie and forms INEOS Phenol. |
| 2003 |
INEOS acquires Methanova and forms INEOS Paraform. |
| 2004 |
Formation of INEOS Enterprises. INEOS Enterprises acquires Sulphur Chemicals Business from Rhodia. |
| 2005 |
EVC becomes fully owned by INEOS and is renamed INEOS Vinyls. INEOS acquires the former Amino resins business of UCB from Cytec and forms INEOS Melamines. Innovene established as a BP subsidiary. NOVA Innovene styrenics joint venture established. INEOS acquires BASF's US and Canadian Polystyrene Business and forms INEOS Styrenics. INEOS Phenol acquires the Chevron Phillips Cumence Plant in Port Arhur. INEOS acquires Innovene from BP, a "transformational acquisition". |
| 2006 |
INEOS restructures Innovene and forms INEOS Nitriles, INEOS Olefins, INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, INEOS Oligomers, INEOS Polyolefins, INEOS Refining and INEOS Technologies. Creation of INEOS ChlorVinyls joint management board. INEOS Oxide acquires the EO/EG business from BP in Köln. INEOS Enterprises acquires White Salt Business from Salt Union. |
| 2007 |
INEOS Fluor agrees joint venture with Zhejiang Xing Teng Chemical Company Limited to produce HF. INEOS ChlorVinyls completes sale of E-PVC Business to Vinnolit. INEOS Acquires Borealis AS and 50% of Noretyl Cracker. INEOS acquires 51% of ABS Business from LANXESS and forms INEOS ABS. An expanded INEOS NOVA styrenics joint venture launched. |
| 2008 |
INEOS acquires Hydro Polymer and the remaining 50% share of the Noretyl Cracker from Norsk Hydro. INEOS Bio formed. INEOS Enterprises acquires the VAM and Ethyl Acetate businesses from BP. INEOS Silicas is sold to PQ. The European Olefins and Polyolefins businesses are combined to form INEOS Olefins & Polymers, Europe. INEOS Nitriles Acquires Seal Sands acrylonitrile site from BASF. |