MOSCOW (MRC) -- Ineos Oxide has indefinitely suspended plans to build a world-scale ethylene oxide, glycol and derivatives plant in the US Gulf Coast, as per a company spokesman, reported Apic-online.
No reason has been given for suspension of the US Gulf facility, which was initially announced in December 2011, with an estimated startup of late 2014.
As MRC informed previously, in early October, 2014, Ineos Industries Holdings Ltd agreed to acquire the Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) from Fortum, that serves the Grangemouth site, for GBP54 million. Grangemouth CHP, currently owned and operated by Fortum, is a natural gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant located at the Grangemouth petrochemical site and refinery in Scotland.
Ineos Group Limited is a privately owned multinational chemicals company consisting of 15 standalone business units, headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland and with its registered office in Lyndhurst, United Kingdom. It is the fourth largest chemicals company in the world measured by revenues (after BASF, Dow Chemical and LyondellBasell) and the largest privately owned company in the United Kingdom.
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