History
 1815 |
Joseph Crosfield & Sons establish a soapery at Warrington, UK. |
| 1890s |
Castner Kellner Alkali Co. Ltd started production of caustic soda at Runcorn, UK. |
| 1933 |
Start up of the BP Lavéra (France) refinery. |
| 1949 |
Start up of the Lavéra (France) petrochemicals activity. |
| 1952 |
Founding of Phenolchemie. |
| 1954 |
Start up of Gladbeck phenol/acetone plant in Germany. |
| 1956 |
Start up of Bayer ABS Business. |
| 1957 |
Start up of the Erdölchemie GmbH petrochemical site at Köln, a 50/50 joint venture between BP and Bayer. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1994 |
EVC floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. |
| 1995 |
Inspec Group acquires the Antwerp site. |
| 1997 |
Crosfield bought by ICI. |
| 1998 |
INEOS formed. INEOS acquires the Antwerp site from Inspec. |
| 2000 |
Start up of Mobile phenol / acetone 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 is fully owned by INEOS. EVC Films renamed INEOS Films. INEOS acquires from Cytec the former Amino resins business of Surface Specialties UCB and forms INEOS Melamines. Innovene established. NOVA Innovene joint venture established. EVC Compounds renamed INEOS Compounds. INEOS acquires BASF's US and Canadian Polystyrene Business. INEOS Phenol acquires Cumene Plant in Port Arthur (500 ktpa) from Chevron Phillips. INEOS acquires Innovene from BP. |
| 2006 |
INEOS renames 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 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. Expanded INEOS NOVA styrenics joint venture launched. |
| 2008 |
INEOS acquires Hydro Polymer and the remaining 50% share of the Noretyl Cracker from Norsk Hydro. |