Base chemistry
Orion S.A. to install tire pyrolysis oil tanks at plant in Jaslo, Poland
- Covestro invests in innovative recycling technology, becoming a shareholder in BioBTX company
- Mura Announces New Feedstock Partnership with Elite Recycling Solutions for First Hydro-PRT Site at Wilton, Teesside
- Neste partners with VTTI in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to enhance sustainable aviation fuel supply in Europe
- CIRCTEC Breaks Ground for Flagship Circular Factory in Delfzijl, The Netherlands
- Novo Holdings and A.P. Moller Holding support CIRCTEC with €150 million financing round for Europe's largest tyre pyrolysis recycling facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands
Base chemistry projects
A map of Base chemistry projects that are planned or currently being executed.
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Scheduled completion
This chart shows how many Base chemistry projects in the European chemical industry are expected to be completed in the upcoming years.
- Borealis invests EUR 4.5 million in steam cracker to increase use of circular raw materials at Porvoo site in Finland
- INEOS to stop ethanol production at Grangemouth, UK site by 2025
- Mura Technology Signs Offtake Agreement with Neste at First Commercial-Scale Site in Teesside, Northeast England
- The final opportunity to prevent Europe from off-shoring its industry, jobs, investments, and emissions - Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Chairman and Founder of INEOS
- Itero receives €5m from EU’s Just Transition Fund for demonstration plant at Brightlands Chemelot, The Netherlands
- Shell's investment in repurposing Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in Wesseling, Germany.
- First industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing butadiene from bioethanol inaugurated at Michelin's site in Bassens, France by Michelin, IFPEN, and Axens
- Hycamite commences construction of Customer Sample Facility in Kokkola Industrial Park, Finland
- Braskem and Shell collaborate to manufacture circular polypropylene using mixed plastic waste
- Cepsa and C2X to Transform Port of Huelva into Europe's Leading Green Methanol Hub
- BASF and Stena Recycling collaborate on recycling electric vehicle batteries in Europe: Stena to pre-treat black mass in Halmstad, Sweden, while BASF refines and recycles it in Schwarzheide, Germany.
- Topsoe Chosen by Essar to Supply Technology for £360 Million Carbon Capture Project in Chester, UK
- Gradual Transformation of Neste's Crude Oil Refinery into a Refining Hub for Renewables and Circular Solutions in Porvoo, Finland
- Europe's Largest Cumene Facility Commences Operations at INEOS Phenol, Significantly Reducing CO2 Emissions in Marl, Germany
- Fire breaks out at Elkem Salten in Norway.
- Closure of Clariant's sunliquid® bioethanol facility in Podari, Romania
- INEOS Aromatics plans to propose the mothballing of one of its PTA plants in Geel, Belgium.
- Mura Technology Launches World’s First Commercial Scale HydroPRS™ Advanced Plastic Recycling Site in Teesside, UK
- Fluor Secures FEED Contract for Sandviken, Sweden's First Industrial-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Production Facility
- BASF Commences Operation of Expanded Ethylene Oxide and Derivatives Complex at Verbund Site in Antwerp, Belgium
- INEOS Enterprises Completes $245 Million Acquisition of Eramet Titanium & Iron (ETI)
- ANDRITZ to deliver one of Europe's largest green hydrogen plants to Salzgitter at the Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH site
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Owners & Investors
Top 5 companies involved as owner and/or investor in current and planned Base chemistry projects:
BASF, Solvay, Orlen, INEOS, Borealis, Shell, Nouryon, Port of Antwerp-Bruges, CEPSA, and TotalEnergies.
