Our History

INEOS Britannia wins the Louis Vuitton Cup and Challenges for the 37^th Americas Cup

INEOS Automotive’s first global brand advertising campaign: built for more

INEOS Completes Purchase of LyondellBasell’s Ethylene Oxide and Derivatives Business

INEOS Nitriles' new world-first bio-based acrylonitrile for Carbon Fibre begin, offering 90% reduction in carbon footprint.

INEOS completes the acquisition of TotalEnergies' petrochemical assets at Lavera

Manchester United plc and Trawlers Ltd Announce the Successful Completion of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Minority Investment

Sir 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."

INEOS Inovyn starts a 90,000-panel solar farm in Jemeppe Belgium.

We began construction of Europe’s most sustainable ethane cracker in Belgium - Project ONE.

INEOS 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. 

Our Energy business signs long-term sales and purchase agreement for 1.4mtpa LNG from Sempra Infrastructure at Port Arthur, USA

We launch a new Bio-Attributed Ethylene Oxide, Completely Substitutes Fossil Feedstock With Renewable Biomass

INEOS Oligomers starts up the world’s largest single train Low Viscosity Polyalphaolefin (LV PAO) plant at its Chocolate Bayou facility in Texas.

INEOS Phenol launches new lower carbon bio product line to be called INVIRIDIS for its phenol acetone and alphamethylstyrene business.

INEOS Nitriles to invest in new world scale Acetonitrile plant at its Köln facility to meet European demand

Our Grangemouth site announces plans to construct a Low-Carbon Hydrogen Manufacturing Plant

We 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

Our WL Plastics business completes the acquisition of Charter Plastics’ Titusville, Pennsylvania Site

INEOS and PLASTIC ENERGY to collaborate on advanced plastic recycling facility.

Two further Hand Sanitiser plants opened in US to support hospitals.

Third plant in France setup for Hand Sanitiser production, manufacturing 1 millions bottles per month

First and Second Hand Sanitiser plant opened after just 10 days.

INEOS becomes principle partner to Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.

Completes the acquisition of BP’s global Aromatics & Acetyls business

INEOS to become a one-third shareholder in Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team

INEOS announces its new INEOS Energy venture

INEOS Automotive confirms acquisition of Hambach production site from Mercedes-Benz

INEOS O&P USA announce the acquisition of Sasol’s Ownership of Gemini HDPE LLC

Launch of a new Clean Hydrogen Business to accelerate the drive to net zero carbon emissions

INEOS agrees to the largest ever industrial wind power purchase contract in Belgium with ENGIE

Launches INEOS Hygienics, a new global healthcare business

We revealed the design of the new Grenadier 4x4 to the world

Announced the acquisition of BPs petchem business. The "lock down deal" was all done virtually by Skype during COVID 19 restrictions

Announced our involvement via INOVYN in the Power to Methanol project in Antwerp

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

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

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

INEOS Technologies and Accsys Technologies form a 50/50 joint venture to develop and commercialise Tricoya® technology and materials

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 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

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 Enterprises acquires Sulphur Chemicals Business from Rhodia

Formation of INEOS Enterprises

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

INEOS formed to acquire the former BP site at Antwerp from Inspec

EVC floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange

ICI open the world’s largest HFC 134A plant at St Gabriel, Louisiana and the world’s first HFC 32 plant in the UK

EVC formed through a 50/50 joint venture between ICI and Enichem

First gas phase Polyethylene plant commissioned at Lavéra

Chocolate bayou site acquired by Amoco for Petrochemical manufacture

Our first PTA plant built in Decatur, USA

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

Leadership in PTA technology starts when purification process invented and key patents filed by Amoco^[1]

HDPE production started at Rosignano

Start up of Bayer ABS Business

Amoco acquires the mid-century technology for purified terephthalic acid (PTA)

First Naphtha Cracker started in Lavéra

1933 - Lavéra, France Oil Refinery starts production

First production of Formaldehyde in Mainz, Germany