Overview

• Ineos says it will focus on keeping remaining Rheinberg operations running and securing roughly 300 local positions.
• The closure timetable remains unspecified and will follow consultations with the works council, with a social plan under negotiation.
• Stephen Dossett of Ineos Inovyn warned that Europe is undermining its industry and criticized emissions‑intensive imports.
• One affected site makes allyl chemicals used in epoxide resins for sectors including defense, aerospace, autos and renewables, and the site also produces chlorine for medicine and wastewater treatment.
• The announcement follows earlier Ineos retrenchments at Grangemouth and Geel and the previously signaled Gladbeck shutdown, as Germany’s VCI urges power‑cost relief and lighter regulation.