INEOS Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH

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INEOS Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH

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founding 2005
Seat Cologne-Worringen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
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Number of employees 2200
Branch Petrochemicals
Website www.ineoskoeln.de
As of December 1, 2019

The INEOS Manufacturing Germany GmbH is a petrochemical company based in Cologne-Worringen . The company currently employs 2200 people and is the largest chemical company and the third largest industrial employer in Cologne.

history

In 1957, EC Erdölchemie GmbH, Cologne, was founded as a joint venture . BP and Bayer AG were 50% shareholders. In 2001, BP took over the remaining 50% in Germany. This company was then renamed BP Cologne. Following an announcement in mid-2004, BP spun off its petrochemicals division at the beginning of 2005 as a legally independent company NewCo, which was renamed Innovene in April 2005. Innovene employed approx. 8500 people worldwide with locations in the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany and China. In Germany, the main location was in Cologne-Worringen with around 2,000 employees and was Innovene's largest petrochemical location worldwide. On December 16, 2005 the company was bought by Ineos .

Production and Products

Ineos (spelling: INEOS) in Cologne is a manufacturer and supplier of raw materials for the chemical industry. The company produces around five million tons of basic chemicals annually. The company premises cover an area of ​​200 hectares.

Ineos processes natural gas , naphtha and liquid gas . By cracking and other technical processes in the plant u. a. Extracted ethylene , propylene and ammonia . Ineos produces basic chemicals in Cologne, which are used as raw materials for many everyday objects such as medicines, textiles and detergents.

In November 2017, Ineos started building a new power plant. The gas and steam system is intended to burn residues from production and reduce electricity consumption for its own systems. Ineos had previously participated in a research project to improve energy supply systems in Cologne. The study was coordinated by the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH Aachen and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

In the spring of 2020, Ineos and Nouryon began building an industrial plant for the production of raw materials for chelate complexes . The biodegradable substances replace banned phosphates and are used in household and personal care products.

Accident

On March 17, 2008 at 2:30 p.m., ethylene leaked from the main pipeline at the Cologne- Worringen site , which connects the site to the European ethylene pipeline. The escaping gas ignited and a nearby storage tank, in which 3000 m³ of toxic acrylonitrile was stored, also caught fire. The fire in the pipeline could not be extinguished, as otherwise there would have been an acute risk of explosion. After the pipeline was shut off, this fire went out after 4½ hours.

The burning acrylonitrile tank could only be extinguished with a second large "foam attack" after about 9½ hours. This required 55,000 liters of water per minute for approx. 25 minutes. The water for this was taken from the Rhine, among other places. A first "foam attack" failed because of insufficient water. A total of 1,200 firefighters from the Chempark plant fire brigade , the Cologne fire brigade and the surrounding fire brigades were on duty during the major fire .

The morning of the following day in Cologne-Worringen, an increased acrylonitrile concentration was measured in the air at 3 different points (5 ppm ). The residents of Worringen were asked to continue to stay in the houses with the windows and doors closed. This precaution was lifted at 7:30 p.m. after further measurements that were below the reference value of 3 ppm.

INEOS has commissioned an independent expert company to examine soil samples in Worringen and in the vicinity of the plant for increased acrylonitrile concentrations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Janczura: These are the chemical groups with the highest sales. In: Ingenieur.de. May 15, 2019, accessed April 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Michael Reubold: Successful Cracker Standstill. In: CHEManager. No. 1–2, 2014, p. 11, accessed on April 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Ineos in Cologne: In the worst case: That's how I behave correctly! Pp. 6-7. Safety information from June 2018, accessed on April 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ Tobias Christ: The new power plant should save 400,000 tons of CO2. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. November 22, 2017, accessed April 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Chair for Technical Thermodynamics, RWTH Aachen; BFT planning; Society for the Promotion of Applied Computer Science; Ineos: Holistic optimization of energy supply systems in practice. Final report. Aachen 2018, accessed on April 22, 2020.
  6. ↑ Alexander Stark: Production of chelates: groundbreaking for new plants in Cologne. In: Process.de. March 5, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020.
  7. ↑ Cologne fire brigade: fire in chemical company in Cologne-Worringen extinguished ( memento of the original from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bf-koeln-fw5.de

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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 49.9 ″  E