Salt

From INEOS Salt's dedicated vacuum salt plant at Runcorn, Cheshire we supply a full range of vacuum salt products for industrial and domestic applications. Our quality products fit most applications and industry needs including food salts, water softening salts, animal feed, industrial and chemical, and de-icing salts. Our plant operates to ISO9001: 2008 standard and as well as having Halaal and Kosher certification, our food grade products conform to the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety.

The purity of our vacuum salts give excellent performance in all applications and our ‘hydrosoft’™ Granular and Tablet salts are Britain’s leading water softening brand.

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Sulphur Chemicals

INEOS Enterprises manufacture sulphuric acid and sulphur based chemicals across two sites in Europe with a combined capacity of over 600KT. At our Runcorn site in the UK, we have been serving the UK market for over 40 years and we are the No 1 UK producer. Our Bilbao site in Northern Spain, built in 2011, is the newest sulphuric acid plant in Europe and uses state of the art sulphur burning technology, generates electricity for wholesale markets and has a sulphur re-melting unit.

We manufacture a range of sulphuric acids of varying concentrations from 77% to 100%, oleum 20, sulphur dioxide, stabilised sulphur trioxide and ultra pure sulphuric acid. Our sulphur chemicals serve a broad spectrum of industries from power generation, agriculture, food, water, automotive, mining and industrial markets finding application for pH control and water treatment, fertilisers, polymer synthesis, fuel additives, detergents and electronics to name just a few.

INEOS Enterprises has invested well over £50 million in the past 5 years maintaining and improving our world class sulphuric acid manufacturing facilities and will continue to invest to ensure world class reliability,quality of our products and service to our customers.

Ammonia and Nitric Acid

Situated within the integrated INEOS Koeln site in Germany, INEOS Enterprises operates a 350 kte/pa ammonia/ aqueous ammonia facility. Ammonia is an essential raw material for the manufacture of a wide and diverse set of technical applications including intermediates for polymers (acylonitriles, caprolactam, methylmethacrylate), along with fertilisers, water treatment, amines and to support the increasing industrial demands for NOx reduction.

This facility benefits from strong integration into INEOS operated acrylonitrile and nitric acid production. Substantial volumes of nitric acid are used in fertiliser, polyurethane and explosive production.

INEOS Enterprises’ products are supplied to its European customers utilising the benefits of the excellent dedicated site, road, rail and barge loading facilities provided at the INEOS Koeln site.

Gas storage

Partnered with energy utility companies, the gas storage business continues to develop a number of natural gas storage facilities using salt cavities created by the solution mining of brine. This area of Cheshire is one of the few locations within the UK that has very favourable geology with the potential to create energy storage caverns. This provides the opportunity to balance the gap between wind energy electrical generation and consumer demand, an important strategic element in the UK’s long term energy plan.

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