Unsere Geschichte
Von einem einzigen Standort in Antwerpen, der für 84 Millionen Pfund gekauft wurde und nur 400 Mitarbeiter beschäftigte, ist INEOS seit seiner Gründung im Mai 1998 exponentiell gewachsen. Hier ist ein Überblick über die wichtigsten Meilensteine in unserer kurzen Geschichte.
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2025
Find out moreCastore completes the acquisition of Belstaff.
Find out moreINEOS Invests £30 Million to Slash Emissions at Hull Site by 75%
Find out moreINEOS Announces Sale of INEOS Hygienics to SKG Capital Partners
Find out moreINEOS and Royal Wagenborg launch the first European built offshore CO2 carrier for Carbon Capture and Storage
Find out moreConstruction begins on Greensand's CO2 transit terminal at Port Esbjerg. The first gateway for Carbon storage in the EU.
Find out moreINEOS Energy completes the acquisition of oil and gas assets in US Gulf from CNOOC
Find out moreINEOS Enterprises completes the sale of INEOS Composites to KPS Capital Partners, LP for c.€1.7bn
Find out moreMercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team announces ambitious first steps towards sustainable carbon fibre composites for 2025 Formula 1 season
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2024
Find out moreINEOS Britannia wins the Louis Vuitton Cup and Challenges for the 37th Americas Cup
Find out moreINEOS Automotive’s first global brand advertising campaign: built for more
Find out moreINEOS Completes Purchase of LyondellBasell’s Ethylene Oxide and Derivatives Business
Find out moreINEOS Nitriles' new world-first bio-based acrylonitrile for Carbon Fibre begin, offering 90% reduction in carbon footprint.
Find out moreINEOS completes the acquisition of TotalEnergies' petrochemical assets at Lavera
Find out moreManchester United plc and Trawlers Ltd Announce the Successful Completion of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Minority Investment
Find out moreSir Jim Ratcliffe writes to European Commission: "This is the last chance to stop Europe from sleepwalking into off-shoring its industry, jobs investments and emissions."
Find out moreINEOS Inovyn starts a 90,000-panel solar farm in Jemeppe Belgium.
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2023
Find out moreINEOS Phenol starts up Europe's largest Cumene facility and halves CO2 emissions
Find out moreINEOS Acetyls completes the acquisition of the 600kt Acetic Acid plant and all associated third party activities at the Eastman Texas City site
Find out moreOur Inovyn business becomes Europe’s first green hydrogen ISCC PLUS fully certificated producer
Find out moreINEOS Enterprises Acquires Eramet Titanium & Iron (ETI).
Find out moreINEOS and SINOPEC form a 50/50 joint venture with SINOPEC for the Tianjin Nangang Ethylene Project.
Find out moreINEOS Energy completes major acquisition of US onshore oil and gas assets from Chesapeake Energy.
Find out moreINEOS Commits To Using 100% Renewable Energy At its Norwegian Plants
Find out moreOur Phenol business completes the acquisition of Mitsui Phenols Singapore Ltd
Find out moreA world first, Project Greensand, shows that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) can work after carbon dioxide (CO2) from Belgium is successfully captured, transported and stored under the Danish North Sea
Find out moreGrowth in China as INEOS and SINOPEC complete the formation of the SECCO 50:50 joint venture and the ABS 50:50 Joint Venture
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2022
Find out moreWe began construction of Europe’s most sustainable ethane cracker in Belgium - Project ONE.
Find out moreINEOS Olefins & Polymers USA enter into a renewable power purchase agreement - The INEOS Hickerson Solar Farm will be a new 310-megawatt solar project located in north central Texas.
Find out moreOur Energy business signs long-term sales and purchase agreement for 1.4mtpa LNG from Sempra Infrastructure at Port Arthur, USA
Find out moreWe launch a new Bio-Attributed Ethylene Oxide, Completely Substitutes Fossil Feedstock With Renewable Biomass
Find out moreINEOS Oligomers starts up the world’s largest single train Low Viscosity Polyalphaolefin (LV PAO) plant at its Chocolate Bayou facility in Texas.
Find out moreINEOS Phenol launches new lower carbon bio product line to be called INVIRIDIS for its phenol acetone and alphamethylstyrene business.
Find out moreINEOS Nitriles to invest in new world scale Acetonitrile plant at its Köln facility to meet European demand
Find out moreOur Grangemouth site announces plans to construct a Low-Carbon Hydrogen Manufacturing Plant
Find out moreWe signed a renewable power deal with Eneco which increases our Belgian offshore agreements to over 200MW and reduces CO2 emissions by nearly 3 million tonnes
Find out moreOur WL Plastics business completes the acquisition of Charter Plastics’ Titusville, Pennsylvania Site
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2021
Find out moreINEOS donates £100 Million to create new Oxford University Institute to fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Project Greensand to receive Danish Government funding of DKK 197 million (€26 million) for CO2 storage in the North Sea
INEOS FPS rolls out AI optimisation technology for lower emissions
INEOS green hydrogen project accelerates towards net-zero future in Germany by 2045
Our Energy busineness completes the acquisition of all oil and gas interests from HESS Corporation in Denmark
INEOS Energy sold its Norwegian oil and gas business to PGNiG for $615m
A first in Belgium: INEOS Phenol and ENGIE use hydrogen in industrial plant in Antwerp
INEOS completes the acquisition of BP’s global Aromatics & Acetyls business
INEOS Donates £100m to create a new Oxford University Institute to fight Antimicrobial Resistance.
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2020
INEOS and PLASTIC ENERGY to collaborate on advanced plastic recycling facility.
Find out moreTwo further Hand Sanitiser plants opened in US to support hospitals.
Find out moreThird plant in France setup for Hand Sanitiser production, manufacturing 1 millions bottles per month
Find out moreFirst and Second Hand Sanitiser plant opened after just 10 days.
Find out moreINEOS becomes principle partner to Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.
Find out moreCompletes the acquisition of BP’s global Aromatics & Acetyls business
Find out moreINEOS to become a one-third shareholder in Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
Find out moreINEOS announces its new INEOS Energy venture
Find out moreINEOS Automotive confirms acquisition of Hambach production site from Mercedes-Benz
Find out moreINEOS O&P USA announce the acquisition of Sasol’s Ownership of Gemini HDPE LLC
Find out moreLaunch of a new Clean Hydrogen Business to accelerate the drive to net zero carbon emissions
Find out moreINEOS agrees to the largest ever industrial wind power purchase contract in Belgium with ENGIE
Find out moreLaunches INEOS Hygienics, a new global healthcare business
Find out moreWe revealed the design of the new Grenadier 4x4 to the world
Find out moreAnnounced the acquisition of BPs petchem business. The "lock down deal" was all done virtually by Skype during COVID 19 restrictions
Find out moreAnnounced our involvement via INOVYN in the Power to Methanol project in Antwerp
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2019
Mercedes-AMG Petronas comes on board with INEOS Team UK and Team INEOS in new performance partnership
Advanced polymer pilot plant opens in Rosignano, Italy
History is made: Eliud Kipchoge becomes first human to break the two-hour marathon in the INEOS’ 1:59 Challenge
INEOS Team UK launch Americas Cup Race boat 1 – “Britannia”
Acquires Ashland Composites business becoming INEOS Composites
Acquires French Ligue 1 Football club OGC Nice
$2 billion investment in Saudi Arabia with three world-scale plants announced
INEOS 1:59, the sub two-hour marathon Challenge is announced
INEOS acquires Cristal’s North American Titanium Dioxide business from Tronox for $700 million. Creates INEOS Pigments
Team Sky becomes Team INEOS. INEOS acquires Tour Racing Ltd from Sky and 21st Century Fox
INEOS Enterprises sells INEOS Melamines and INEOS Paraforms to Prefere Resins Holding GmbH
£1 billion investment in INEOS UK based businesses announced
€3 billion petrochemical investment in Antwerp announced
INEOS Oxide acquires Lavéra Ethoxylation Plant
Announcement of development of Infinia recycling technology, which could make PET plastic infinitely recyclable
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2018
Acquires the Flint Hills Intermediates business to be trade as INEOS Joliet
Acquires Ashland Composites Business for $1.1 billion
Celebrates its 20th anniversary with €200 million European investment in its Oxide business
Announces €2.7bn investment a new European cracker, the first in 20 years
Forms INEOS TEAM UK and invests £110m to challenge for the America’s Cup
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2017
Acquires clothing brand Belstaff
Acquires Swiss football club Lausanne Sport
Forms INEOS Automotive to develop 4x4 off-road vehicle
Buys Forties Pipeline System and Kinneil Terminal from BP
Acquires the entire oil and gas business from Dong Energy to become Top 10 oil and gas company in the North Sea
Upgrade of Aromatics PTA plant in Cooper River, South Carolina, increasing capacity and reducing emissions and energy use
Acetyls announces investment in Tricoya® wood acetylation, which protects wood from rot and reduces its tendency to swell and shrink
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2016
Buys Solvay’s stake in INOVYN
Moves headquarters back to the UK
First shipment of ethane from US to Europe using purpose-built vessels – part of a 1$bn project
PTAir launches, offering customers in the polyester value chain the opportunity to purchase a lower carbon feedstock
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2015
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
Upgrade of Aromatics PTA plant in Geel, Belgium, increasing capacity and reducing emissions and energy use
Introduced latest generation PTA technology in Aromatics facility in Zhuhai, China, which reduces emissions and both liquid and solid waste
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2014
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
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2013
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
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2012
INEOS Technologies and Accsys Technologies form a 50/50 joint venture to develop and commercialise Tricoya® technology and materials
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2011
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 USAINEOS and Petrochina form trading and refining joint venture in Europe
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2010
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
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2009
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
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2008
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
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2007
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
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2006
INEOS Enterprises übernimmt das Geschäft mit Weißsalz von Salt Union
INEOS Oxide übernimmt das EO/EG-Geschäft von BP in Köln
Einrichtung eines gemeinsamen Verwaltungsrats von INEOS ChlorVinyls
INEOS restrukturiert Innovene und gründet INEOS Nitriles, INEOS Olefins, INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, INEOS Oligomers, INEOS Polyolefins, INEOS Refining und INEOS Technologies.
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2005
INEOS übernimmt Innovene von BP – eine „transformative Akquisition“
INEOS Phenol übernimmt das Cumolwerk von Chevron Phillips in Port Arthur
INEOS übernimmt das US-amerikanische und kanadische Polystyrolgeschäft von BASF und gründet INEOS Styrenics
Das Joint Venture Nova Innovene Styrenics wurde gegründet
Innovene wurde als BP-Tochtergesellschaft gegründet.
INEOS erwirbt das ehemalige Aminoharzgeschäft von UCB von CYTEC und gründet INEOS Melamines.
EVC wird vollständig von INEOS übernommen und in INEOS Vinyls umbenannt.
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2004
INEOS Enterprises übernimmt das Schwefelchemikaliengeschäft von Rhodia
Gründung von INEOS Enterprises
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2003
INEOS erwirbt die Methanova GmbH und gründet INEOS Paraform
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2001
INEOS erwirbt Phenolchemie und gründet INEOS Phenol
INEOS erwirbt die Mehrheitsbeteiligung an EVC
INEOS übernimmt die globalen Ethanolamin- und US/Kanada-Gas/Spec™-Gasbehandlungsamingeschäfte von Dow Chemicals.
INEOS übernimmt ICI KLEA und gründet INEOS Fluor
INEOS erwirbt ICI Chlor-Chemicals und gründet INEOS Chlor
INEOS übernimmt Crosfield und gründet INEOS Silicas
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2000
Inbetriebnahme einer mobilen Phenolanlage in Alabama, USA
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1998
INEOS wurde gegründet, um das ehemalige BP-Gelände in Antwerpen von Inspec zu erwerben.
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1995
Acetyls entwickelt das Cativa-Verfahren zur Herstellung von Essigsäure, wodurch die Energieeffizienz und die Produktion gesteigert werden.
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1994
EVC wurde an der Amsterdamer Börse notiert.
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1993
KG Cracker in Grangemouth in Betrieb genommen
Inbetriebnahme der Phenol-/Acetonanlage in Antwerpen
ICI und Teijin Limited gründen ein Joint Venture zur Herstellung von KLEA™134A in Mihara, Japan.
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1992
ICI eröffnet die weltweit größte HFC-134A-Anlage in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, und die weltweit erste HFC-32-Anlage in Großbritannien.
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1990
ICI nimmt die weltweit erste HFC-134A-Anlage in Betrieb
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1986
EVC entstand durch ein 50/50-Joint-Venture zwischen ICI und Enichem.
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1978
Standort Antwerpen an BP Chemicals verkauft
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1975
Erste Polyethylen-Gasphasenanlage in Lavéra in Betrieb genommen
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1969
Erstes PTA-Werk in Geel, Belgien
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1967
Das Gelände des Chocolate Bayou wurde von Amoco für die petrochemische Herstellung erworben.
Unser erstes PTA-Werk wurde in Decatur, USA, errichtet.
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1966
Union Carbide errichtet Standort für Ethylenderivate in Antwerpen
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1960
Erste kommerzielle Nutzung des Ammoxidationsverfahrens für Acrylnitril in Lima
Installation von zwei hochmodernen Zellkammern am ICI-Standort Runcorn für die Chlor- und Natronlaugeproduktion
Die Führungsrolle in der PTA-Technologie begann mit der Erfindung des Reinigungsverfahrens und der Anmeldung wichtiger Patente durch Amoco[1].
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1957
Inbetriebnahme des petrochemischen Standorts der Erdölchemie GmbH in Köln, einem 50/50-Joint-Venture zwischen BP und Bayer
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1956
Die HDPE-Produktion begann in Rosignano.
Gründung des ABS-Geschäfts von Bayer
Amoco erwirbt die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelte Technologie zur Reinigung von Terephthalsäure (PTA).
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1954
Inbetriebnahme des Phenol-/Acetonwerks von Gladbeck in Deutschland
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1953
Der erste Naphtha-Cracker wurde in Lavéra ins Leben gerufen.
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1949
Inbetriebnahme der petrochemischen Anlage in Lavéra, Frankreich
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1933
Die Ölraffinerie in Lavéra, Frankreich, nimmt die Produktion auf.
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1924
Ölraffinerie in Grangemouth, Großbritannien, nimmt Produktion auf
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1895
Erste Formaldehydproduktion in Mainz, Deutschland
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1890
Castner Kellner Alkali Co. Ltds hat die Produktion von Ätznatron in Runcorn, Großbritannien, aufgenommen.