History
Our History
Here is a brief history of our business purchases and achievements
Acquires the Flint Hills Intermediates business and be trade as INEOS Joliet
Acquires Ashland Composites Business for $1.1 billion
Celebrates its 20th anniversary with €200 million European investment in its Oxide business
Announces €2.7bn investment a new European cracker, the first in 20 years
Forms INEOS TEAM UK and invests £110m to challenge for the America’s Cup
Acquires clothing brand Belstaff
Acquires Swiss football club Lausanne Sport
Forms INEOS Automotive to develop 4x4 off-road vehicle
Buys Forties Pipeline System and Kinneil Terminal from BP
Acquires the entire oil and gas business from Dong Energy to become Top 10 oil and gas company in the North Sea
Buys Solvay’s stake in INOVYN
Moves headquarters back to the UK
First shipment of ethane from US to Europe using purpose-built vessels – part of a 1$bn project
Buys North Sea gas fields from DEA
First two Dragon ships named
Forms the INOVYN 50/50 JV with Solvay
Acquires further shale gas licenses
Ground Breaking HDPE JV plant with Sasol
Acquires Grangemouth power plant from Fortum
Completes purchase of BASF share of Styrolution
Acquires first UK shale gas licenses
Acquires Sasol Solvents Germany GmbH
Agrees to create a world-class PVC producer with Solvay
First ethane Dragon ships ordered
Rafnes tank approved
U.S. ethane contracts signed
Project Mariner
INEOS Technologies and Accsys Technologies form a 50/50 joint venture to develop and commercialise Tricoya® technology and materials
Kerling acquire Tessenderlo's European Chlor-Vinyls Business
INEOS and BASF form Styrolution, a new global styrenics joint venture
INEOS Bio joint venture breaks ground on the first advanced waste-to-fuel commercial
refinery in the USA
INEOS and Petrochina form trading and refining joint venture in Europe
INEOS divests its global films business to Bilcare
INEOS Oxide builds a one million tonne Ethylene Terminal at its Zwijndrecht Facility
INEOS moves its headquarters from the United Kingdom to Switzerland
INEOS Group divests INEOS Fluor to Mexichem Fluor S.A
INEOS brings together INEOS Norway and INEOS ChlorVinyls to create The Kerling Group as a European market leader in PVC and Chlor-Alkali
INEOS Nitriles make technological breakthrough to improve the global security of supply for Acetonitrile
INEOS Oligomers start up a new 'super flexible' technology innovation for its Linear Alpha Olefin (LAO) unit in Feluy, Belgium
INEOS Nitriles acquires Seal Sands Acrylonitrile site from BASF
The European Olefins and Polyolefins Business are combined to form INEOS Olefins &
Polymers, Europe
INEOS Silicas is sold to PQ
INEOS Enterprises acquires the VAM and Ethyl Acetate Business from BP
INEOS Bio formed
INEOS acquires Hydro Polymer and the remaining 50% share of the Noretyl Cracker from Norsk Hydro
An expanded INEOS Nova Styrenics joint venture launched
INEOS acquires 51% of ABS Business from Lanxess and forms INEOS ABS
INEOS acquires Borealis AS and 50% of Noretyl Cracker
INEOS Chlorvinyls completes sale of E-PVC Business to Vinnolit
INEOS Fluor agrees joint venture with Zhejiang Xing Teng Chemical Company Limited to produce HF
INEOS Enterprises acquires White Salt Business from Salt Union
INEOS Oxide acquires the EO/EG Business from BP in Köln
Creation of INEOS ChlorVinyls joint management board
INEOS restructures Innovene and forms INEOS Nitriles, INEOS Olefins, INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, INEOS Oligomers, INEOS Polyolefins, INEOS Refining and INEOS Technologies
INEOS acquires Innovene from BP, a 'transformational acquisition'
INEOS Phenol acquires the Chevron Phillips Cumene plant in Port Arthur
INEOS acquires BASF's US and Canadian Polystyrene Business and forms INEOS Styrenics
Nova Innovene Styrenics joint venture established
Innovene established as a BP subsidiary
INEOS acquires the former Amino Resins Business of UCB from CYTEC and forms INEOS Melamines
EVC becomes fully owned by INEOS and is renamed INEOS Vinyls
INEOS Enterprises acquires Sulphur Chemicals Business from Rhodia
Formation of INEOS Enterprises
INEOS acquires Methanova GmbH and forms INEOS Paraform
INEOS acquires Phenolchemie and forms INEOS Phenol
INEOS acquires a majority shareholding in EVC
INEOS acquires Dow Chemicals' global Ethanolamine and USA/Canadian Gas/Spec™ gas treating Amines businesses
INEOS acquires ICI KLEA and forms INEOS Fluor
INEOS acquires ICI Chlor-Chemicals and forms INEOS Chlor
INEOS acquires Crosfield and forms INEOS Silicas
Start up of Mobile Phenol plant in Alabama, USA
INEOS formed to acquire the former BP site at Antwerp from Inspec
EVC floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
KG Cracker commissioned at Grangemouth
Start up of Antwerp Phenol/Acetone plant
ICI and Teijin Limited joint venture to make KLEA™134A at Mihara, Japan
ICI open the world’s largest HFC 134A plant at St Gabriel, Louisiana and the world’s first HFC 32 plant in the UK
ICI commission the world's first HFC 134A plant
EVC formed through a 50/50 joint venture between ICI and Enichem
Antwerp site sold to BP Chemicals
First gas phase Polyethylene plant commissioned at Lavéra
Chocolate bayou site acquired by Amoco for Petrochemical manufacture
Union Carbide construct Ethylene Derivatives site at Antwerp
First commercialisation of Ammoxidation process for Acrylonitrile at Lima
Installation of two state-of-the-art Cell rooms at ICI Runcorn site for Chlorine and Caustic Soda production
Start up of the Erdölchemie GmbH Petrochemical site at Köln, a 50/50 joint venture between BP and Bayer
HDPE production started at Rosignano
Start up of Bayer ABS Business
Start up of Gladbeck Phenol/Acetone plant in Germany
First Naphtha Cracker started in Lavéra
Start up of the Lavéra, France Petrochemicals facility
1933 - Lavéra, France Oil Refinery starts production
Grangemouth, UK Oil Refinery starts production
First production of Formaldehyde in Mainz, Germany
Castner Kellner Alkali Co. Lts started production of Caustic Soda at Runcorn, UK