Our Leadership
INEOS is led by its founder and Chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe and co-owners Andy Currie and John Reece.
From a single site in Antwerp bought for £84 million and employing just 400 people, INEOS has grown exponentially since it was formed in May 1998. Here is an overview of the key milestones in our short history.
INEOS donates £100 Million to create new Oxford University Institute to fight Antimicrobial Resistance
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INEOSandPLASTIC ENERGYto collaborate on advanced plastic recycling facility.
Two further Hand Sanitiser plants opened in US to support hospitals.
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Third plant in France setup for Hand Sanitiser production, manufacturing 1 millions bottles per month.
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First and Second Hand Sanitiser plant opened after just 10 days.FIND OUT MORE
INEOS becomes principle partner to Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.
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Completes the acquisition of BP’s global Aromatics & Acetyls business
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INEOS to become a one-third shareholder in Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
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INEOS announces its new INEOS Energy venture
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INEOS Automotive confirms acquisition of Hambach production site from Mercedes-Benz
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INEOS O&P USA announce the acquisition of Sasol’s Ownership of Gemini HDPE LLC
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Launch of a new Clean Hydrogen Business to accelerate the drive to net zero carbon emissions
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INEOS agrees to the largest ever industrial wind power purchase contract in Belgium with ENGIE
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Launches INEOS Hygienics, a new global healthcare business
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We revealed the design of the new Grenadier 4x4 to the world
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Announced the acquisition of BPs petchem business. The "lock down deal" was all done virtually by Skype during COVID 19 restrictions
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Announced our involvement via INOVYN in the Power to Methanol project in Antwerp
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Mercedes-AMG Petronas有限公司mes on board with INEOS Team UK and Team INEOS in new performance partnership
Advanced polymer pilotplant opens in Rosignano, Italy
History is made:Eliud Kipchogebecomes first human to break the two-hour marathon in theINEOS’ 1:59 Challenge
INEOS Team UKlaunch Americas Cup Race boat 1 – “Britannia”
Acquiresashland复合材料业务成为INEOS Composites
AcquiresFrench Ligue 1 Football clubOGC Nice
$2 billioninvestment inSaudi Arabiawith three world-scale plants announced
INEOS 1:59, the sub two-hour marathon Challenge is announced
INEOSacquiresCristal’s North American Titanium Dioxide business from Tronox for $700 million. CreatesINEOS Pigments
Team Sky becomesTeam INEOS. INEOSacquiresTour Racing Ltd from Sky and 21st Century Fox
INEOS EnterprisessellsINEOS Melamines and INEOS Paraforms to Prefere Resins Holding GmbH
£1 billioninvestmentin INEOSUKbased businesses announced
€3 billionpetrochemicalinvestmentin Antwerp announced
INEOS OxideacquiresLavéra Ethoxylation Plant
Acquires theFlint Hills Intermediatesbusiness to be trade asINEOS Joliet
AcquiresAshland CompositesBusiness for $1.1 billion
Celebrates its20th anniversarywith€200 million Europeaninvestmentin its Oxide business
Announces€2.7bn investmenta newEuropean cracker, the first in 20 years
形式INEOS TEAM UKand invests £110m to challenge for theAmerica’s Cup
Acquires clothing brandBelstaff
Acquires Swiss football clubLausanne Sport
形式INEOS Automotiveto develop 4x4 off-road vehicle
BuysForties Pipeline SystemandKinneil终端fromBP
Acquires the entire oil and gas business fromDong Energyto becomeTop 10 oil and gas companyin theNorth Sea
BuysSolvay’sstake inINOVYN
Movesheadquartersback to the UK
First shipment of ethane fromUS to Europeusingpurpose-built vessels– part of a 1$bn project
BuysNorth Seagas fields fromDEA
前二Dragon shipsnamed
形式theINOVYN50/50 JV with Solvay
Acquires further shale gas licenses
Ground BreakingHDPE JV plantwith Sasol
AcquiresGrangemouthpower plant from Fortum
完成购买BASFshare ofStyrolution
Acquires firstUK shale gas licenses
AcquiresSasol SolventsGermany GmbH
Agrees to create aworld-class PVC producer用索尔维
Firstethane Dragon shipsordered
Rafnes tank approved
U.S.ethane有限公司ntracts signed
Project Mariner
INEOS Technologies and Accsys Technologies form a 50/50joint ventureto develop and commercialise Tricoya® technology and materials
KerlingacquireTessenderlo's European Chlor-Vinyls Business
INEOS and BASF form Styrolution, a new global styrenicsjoint venture
Ineos Bio.joint venturebreaks groundon the first advanced waste-to-fuel commercial
refinery in the USA
INEOS and Petrochinaformtrading and refining joint venture in Europe
INEOS divests its global films business to Bilcare
INEOS Oxidebuildsa one million tonne Ethylene Terminal at its Zwijndrecht Facility
INEOSmovesits headquarters from the United Kingdom to Switzerland
INEOS Group divests INEOS Fluor to Mexichem Fluor S.A
ineos在ineos挪威和ineos chlorvinyls汇集在一起createThe Kerling Group as a European market leader in PVC and Chlor-Alkali
INEOS Nitriles make technological breakthrough toimprovethe global security of supply for Acetonitrile
INEOS Oligomersstart upa new 'super flexible' technology innovation for its Linear Alpha Olefin (LAO) unit in Feluy, Belgium
INEOS NitrilesacquiresSeal Sands Acrylonitrile site from BASF
The European Olefins and Polyolefins Business are有限公司mbinedto form INEOS Olefins &
Polymers, Europe
INEOS Silicas issoldto PQ
INEOS Enterprisesacquiresthe VAM and Ethyl Acetate Business from BP
Ineos Bio.formed
INEOSacquiresHydro Polymer and the remaining 50% share of the Noretyl Cracker from Norsk Hydro
An expanded INEOS Nova Styrenicsjoint venturelaunched
INEOSacquires51% of ABS Business from Lanxess and forms INEOS ABS
INEOSacquiresBorealis AS and 50% of Noretyl Cracker
INEOS Chlorvinyls completessaleof E-PVC Business to Vinnolit
INEOS Fluor agreesjoint venturewith Zhejiang Xing Teng Chemical Company Limited to produce HF
INEOS EnterprisesacquiresWhite Salt Business from Salt Union
INEOS Oxideacquiresthe EO/EG Business from BP in Köln
Creationof INEOS ChlorVinyls joint management board
INEOSrestructuresInnovene and forms INEOS Nitriles, INEOS Olefins, INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, INEOS Oligomers, INEOS Polyolefins, INEOS Refining and INEOS Technologies
INEOSacquiresInnovene from BP, a 'transformational acquisition'
INEOS Phenolacquiresthe Chevron Phillips Cumene plant in Port Arthur
INEOSacquiresBASF's US and Canadian Polystyrene Business and forms INEOS Styrenics
Nova Innovene Styrenicsjoint ventureestablished
Innoveneestablishedas a BP subsidiary
INEOSacquiresthe former Amino Resins Business of UCB from CYTEC and forms INEOS Melamines
EVC becomesfully ownedby INEOS and is renamed INEOS Vinyls
INEOS EnterprisesacquiresSulphur Chemicals Business from Rhodia
形成of INEOS Enterprises
INEOSacquiresMethanova GmbH and forms INEOS Paraform
INEOSacquiresPhenolchemie and forms INEOS Phenol
INEOSacquiresa majority shareholding in EVC
INEOSacquiresDow Chemicals' global Ethanolamine and USA/Canadian Gas/Spec™ gas treating Amines businesses
INEOSacquiresICI KLEA and forms INEOS Fluor
INEOSacquiresICI Chlor-Chemicals and forms INEOS Chlor
INEOSacquiresCrosfield and forms INEOS Silicas
Start upof Mobile Phenol plant in Alabama, USA
INEOSformedto acquire the former BP site at Antwerp from Inspec
EVCfloatedon the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
KG Cracker有限公司mmissionedat Grangemouth
Start upof Antwerp Phenol/Acetone plant
ICI and Teijin Limitedjoint ventureto make KLEA™134A at Mihara, Japan
ICIopenthe world’s largest HFC 134A plant at St Gabriel, Louisiana and the world’s first HFC32 plant in the UK
ICI有限公司mmissionthe world's first HFC 134A plant
EVCformedthrough a 50/50 joint venture between ICI and Enichem
Antwerp sitesoldto BP Chemicals
First gas phase Polyethylene plant有限公司mmissionedat Lavéra
Chocolate bayou siteacquired阿莫科石油公司对石油化工manufacture
Union Carbide有限公司nstructEthylene Derivatives site at Antwerp
First有限公司mmercialisationof Ammoxidation process for Acrylonitrile at Lima
Installationof 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生产started atRosignano
Start upof Bayer ABS Business
Start upof Gladbeck Phenol/Acetone plant in Germany
First Naphtha Crackerstartedin Lavéra
Start upof the Lavéra, France Petrochemicals facility
1933 - Lavéra, France Oil Refinerystartsproduction
Grangemouth, UK Oil Refinerystartsproduction
Firstproductionof Formaldehyde in Mainz, Germany
Castner Kellner Alkali Co. Ltsstartedproduction of Caustic Soda at Runcorn, UK
INEOS is led by its founder and Chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe and co-owners Andy Currie and John Reece.
INEOS has sites around the world, catering to different businesses and requirements. View the interactive map here.
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