Third Parties
Sharing our strategic location at the heart of Europe's largest petrochemical centre - our assets are your options.
INEOS Oxide has a long and successful track record of attracting Third Parties to invest on its Antwerp site. Mainly focused on EO-consuming projects, our site offers petrochemical companies the opportunity to locate their production at the doorstep of the world's second largest economy; the European single market based on the Euro.
The INEOS Oxide philosophy is to treat each Third Party partner as if they were a division of INEOS Oxide itself; finding ways of enabling them to take maximum benefit of the facilities, services and strategic location our site offers.
The key advantages offered to Third Parties are:
- strategic coastal location at the heart of the world's second largest petrochemical zone
- close proximity to raw materials via pipeline, sea, road and rail
- close proximity to Europe's prime customer base via sea, inland waterway, rail and road transportation networks
- rapid commissioning at minimal initial investment
- existing chemical-permitted land, infrastructures, services and highly skilled work-force at your option.
INEOS Oxide has developed long-term partnerships currently with nine Third Parties on our site. Our state-of-the art facilities, services and highly qualified staff are engaged in production partnerships with Dow Chemical and GE Bayer Silicones. In addition, another seven companies, Kuraray, Nippon Shokubai, Praxair, Seppic, B.A.C., S.P.A. and Essent, utilize INEOS Oxide's services including the supply of utilities and feedstocks.
All required utilities and waste handling facilities are ISO 9001 certified and can be made available to new Third Parties. These utilities include;
- steam produced by an on-site newly built highly efficient cogeneration plant (mainly gas fired) with an installed steam capacity rated at 420 t/h (including 2 back up steam boilers) from which highly reliable at different pressure levels (from 42 bar superheated down to 1.75 bar service steam) is supplied
- electricity on site generated in the CHP unit is connected to the public grid at 150 kV level and supplies on site production units via a redundant highly reliable direct line connection and an internal grid distribution system (step-down capability up to 36 kV / 6 kV / 690 volts / 380 volts)
- demineralised water produced on-site by a new build state of the art demin water plant with an installed capacity of 350 t/h
- process water & fire water (city water), primarily taken from the public grid / storage capacity of 18 000 m3 / and separate distribution systems
INEOS Oxide provides third party companies with the option of sharing the existing plant infrastructure including a state-of-the-art process control centre, fully equipped analytical laboratory, central maintenance shop with stores, modern conference and training centre, a medical centre and offices. INEOS Oxide can also provide a complete range of operational services and specialists on a shared-cost, shared-overhead or service contract basis: operations, product handling and operations support, safety, security and medical services, environmental protection and occupational health management, engineering, maintenance and inspection, purchasing, distribution and commercial services, accounting and IT support, personnel and training.
Basing your assets on INEOS Oxide's site gives you a range of advantages that make this one of the most cost-effective means of direct investment in Europe: on-site access to feedstocks and pipelines, existing infrastructure and equipment, on-site port and rail facilities, highly skilled workforce and shared overheads.
In addition INEOS Oxide offers a long and successful record of helping companies start new operations in Europe, a history of co-operative relationships with national, regional and local government agencies, an excellent record in safety and environmental matters, super quality control and quality assurance technologies and high standards of production technologies.
INEOS Oxide's Plaquemine workforce operate Dow Chemical's glycol ethers and polyglycols facilities as a contract manufacturer.
"Our assets are your options
- INEOS Oxide meets your needs in the way you choose".
Invitation
Companies interested in setting up chemical operation with INEOS Oxide should request the detailed INEOS Oxide Third Parties brochure.