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Ineos Propose Grangemouth Ethanol Closure from Q1 2025

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Ineos has proposed to shut its ethanol plant in Grangemouth, Scotland from Q1 2025 claiming the sector of the business has been running at a loss for “several years” it said Tuesday.

  • Grangemouth ethanol production is based on ethylene supplied from the company's neighbouring 740,000 t/yr ethane and LPG-based steam cracker, with capacity to consume an estimated 214,000 t/yr of ethylene at nameplate production capacity according to Argus.
  • Customers "will be offered the supply of ethanol from Ineos' other plant in Herne, Germany," said Ineos Olefins and Polymers chief executive Stuart Collings.
  • Scotland’s Grangemouth oil refinery is set to close in spring 2025 due to ‘unsustainable levels of losses’ according to a Petroineos statement in November last year.

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