Lone Voices in the Desert
“Enough with the Snail’s Pace!”: Industry Leaders Urge Action to Save Europe’s Chemical Sector
Jim Ratcliffe
Ineos Announces €250 Million Investment to Strengthen French Industry at Lavéra
Ineos has launched a major investment at Lavera to regenerate and modernize one of France’s most important industrial sites, safeguarding 10,000 jobs, with support from the French State.
Ratcliffe: Chemical Industry in Europe at a Tipping Point
Ineos CEO Ineos calls on European politicians to save the chemical industry.
Ineos Intents to Permanently Close Gladbeck Site in Germany
Ineos Phenol announced its intention to permanently stop production at their site in Gladbeck, Germany.
European Chemical Industry Becoming Extinct
Ahead of the unveiling of the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal, Ineos Chairman and CEO, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, authored an open letter to emphasize the importance of supportive political decisions and measures for the European industry. Releasing the open letter, Ineos stated: “A year on from the signing of ‘The Antwerp Declaration for a European Industrial Deal’ we have not seen the action necessary to stem the decline of European industry. Ineos has continued to invest in Europe; however, it is now an exception in a landscape of deindustrialization and closures.” Please read the complete open letter below:
Greensand CCS Project Partners Take Final Investment Decision
Ineos and its partners Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden have taken the final investment decision (FID) into the first commercial phase ‘Greensand Future’ with storage operations in a depleted oil field in the Danish North Sea set to begin at the end of 2025/early 2026.
Ineos Charters Two LNG Carriers for Shipping US Gas
Ineos Energy, one of the newer units in Jim Ratcliffe’s growing portfolio of chemicals and related holdings, has signed dual agreements with Japanese shipbuilder Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) for two very large LNG carriers it plans to use to transport US-produced liquefied natural gas to Germany.
