History

Here is a brief history of our business purchases and achievements

  1. Rosignano: OPENS a new advanced polymer pilot plant to integrate recycled components into new resins

    INEOS ANNOUNCES agreement with Viridor to take thousands of tonnes of recycled polymer to generate a hybrid polymer partially made from mechanically recycled plastic

    Köln: FIRST site to receive RSB certification enabling the manufacture of “Bio-attributed” polymers

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    INEOS ANNOUNCES Antwerp as the location for the €3 billion Project One site

  2. INEOS announces €2.7 billion investment to CONSTRUCT the first cracker in Europe for over 20 years

    Köln: OPENS new €30 million office centralising the customer service centre and administration

  3. INEOS signs agreement to BUILD the largest butane storage tank in Europe

    Köln: CELEBRATES 50 years of operations at the site

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    First DEPARTURE of INEOS Intrepid, one of INEOS’ Dragon ships, carrying the historic first shale gas shipment from the US to Europe 

    Grangemouth: The new office OPENS as part of a £450 million investment in the site.

  5. Grangemouth: CONSTRUCTION of Europe’s largest ethane tank begins.

  6. INEOS DESIGNS and CONSTRUCTS the world’s largest gas carrier ship announced to bring ethane from the US to Europe

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    INEOS Olefins (Europe) and INEOS Polyolefins (Europe) are combined to form the current INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe business

  8. INEOS acquires Hydro Polymers and the remaining 50% share of the Noretyl Cracker at Rafnes from Norsk Hydro.

    Köln: Expansion of the Cracker by 100KTPA of Ethylene

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    INEOS acquires Borealis Norway and 50% of the Noretyl Cracker at Rafnes

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    INEOS restructures INNOVENE and forms INEOS Olefins (Europe) and INEOS Polyolefins (Europe) as two of its eleven 'stand alone' business units

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    INEOS acquires INNOVENE, BP's global Petrochemicals division, with BP, Solvay and Amoco heritage

  12. BP acquires PE business from Solvay

  13. Köln: Ethane Cracker line commissioned

    Lillo HDPE train 2 commissioned

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    Joint venture is agreed for all PE activities between BP and Solvay.

    BP acquires the Solvay PP business

    Köln: BP acquires the Bayer share of the EC-ERDÖLCHEMIE joint venture and changed name to BP Köln.

    Grangemouth: train 2KG Cracker commissioned

  15. Geel: PP2 is commissioned

  16. Grangemouth: KG Cracker train 1 commissioned

  17. Lillo: start of HDPE & PP production

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    Lavéra: Cracker №4 further debottlenecked to 700KTPA

  19. Köln: start-up of cracker №5

  20. Sarralbe PP production starts

  21. Lavéra: New PE plants using a gas phase process, designed by research team opens

  22. Köln: start-up of cracker No4. Sarralbe HDPE production starts

  23. Geel site is established

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    Rosignano: HDPE production unit starts

    Grangemouth: Polyethylene production starts

  25. Köln: Site founded as 'EC-ERDÖLCHEMIE', a joint venture of BP and Bayer

  26. Lavéra: Naphtachimie created by 3 partners: Pechiney, Kuhlmann and SGHP (first company name of BP in France)