Novos accionistas na CIRES

A CIRES tem um novo membro na sua estrutura accionista, a notícia já tem cerca de duas semanas, na Global Plastics Magazine (A referência à empresa de Estarreja no final do artigo, que fiz questão de colocar a negrito:

The world’s third largest chemicals company, Ineos (Lyndhurst, England), continues to swallow up bits and pieces of competitors in its effort to grow even bigger. Late last week it announced the acquisition of the Norwegian polyolefin assets of competitor Borealis (Vienna, Austria). For €290 million, Ineos gets a 170,000 tonnes/yr capacity polypropylene unit, a 140,000 tonnes/yr low-density polyethylene plant, as well as a 50% share of the 557,000 tonnes/yr gas cracker located at Bamble, Norway. A Borealis spokesperson told MPW that the units are all estimated to be about 20 years old.
The move leaves Borealis with no polyolefin production in Norway. That capacity had been set up when the company was a joint venture between Norway’s Statoil (Stavanger) and the Finnish petrochemical producer Neste (Espoo). Both these companies bailed out of the polyolefin business, and the company since has been acquired by Abu Dhabi and Austrian interests. “The sale of our Norwegian polyolefins business is another step to increase the overall competitiveness of our European operations,” says Borealis CEO John Taylor. Borealis appears to see its future more in Central Europe and is building worldscale facilities, which neither of the Norwegian plants were, and debottlenecking existing ones to expand capacities.
Ineos Chairman Jim Ratcliffe claims the acquisition will enhance his company’s operations with “important opportunities for us to support existing assets in the Northwest European ethylene network.” Late last month Ineos snapped up, in a €670 million deal, the PVC activities of the Hydro Group, owned by Kerling ASA (Oslo, Norway) for its own Ineos Vinyls, formerly EVC. With the deal, Ineos picks up 600,000 tonnes/yr PVC capacity in England, Sweden, and Norway to add to its 1.4 million tonnes/yr existing capacity. The purchase also gave it a 25% interest in Iberian PVC production through part ownership of Cires (Estarreja, Portugal)