Where we operate
Indopol® polybutenes are supported by a global organization to serve all our customers.
- Operations and Manufacturing
- Customer Services
- Lavéra, France
- Whiting, Indiana, USA
- The polybutene business is a truly global enterprise that sells Indopol and Panalane® polybutenes all over the world. The organization has manufacturing plants on two continents, supported by distribution and storage points, and regional offices in America, Asia and Europe that provide a range of commercial and technical services.
- The driving force behind the business is to provide customer choice and value by producing and selling the broadest polybutene product range. This allows our customers, whatever their application, to find the polybutene that meets their needs. For polybutene product and applications information please see Products and Services and/or Applications.
Customer Service
- Indopol polybutenes are supported by world-class customer service and technical support that are provided to deliver value and choice to our customers. Sales inquiries and orders are dealt with by specially trained sales people in our customer service centers, located in League City, TX, USA, Singapore and Feluy, Belgium.
- INEOS is taking the lead in e-commerce with Orders Online which provides the capability to accept customer orders 24 hours a day 7 days a week. For some customers the benefits from vendor inventory management may be available. For further information on the services we offer, please contact the polybutene business directly; please see the Polybutenes ‘Contacts' link below.
Lavéra
- The Lavéra site is located 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Marseille, in the south of France. The site occupies 150 hectares (370 acres) of land on the Mediterranean coast and is one of Europe's major petrochemical sites. The INEOS site includes one of the company's two refineries, the second largest in France.
- INEOS polybutene plant at Lavéra has a capacity of 80 000 tons. The products serve many applications and are distributed all over Europe using a combination of direct delivery, distributors and local storage points offering excellent lead times and reliable supply to any European destination. The Lavéra site is also the base for the European polybutene technical service team.
- For further information concerning the Lavéra site, please see Lavéra section of this website.
- Lavera, France
Whiting
- The Whiting polybutene plant has a capacity of 88 000 tons. It is located on a 40-acre site on the Lake Michigan shoreline adjacent to the BP Whiting, Indiana Refinery, which is approximately 35 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois on the southern end of Lake Michigan. The polybutene unit commenced operations in 1983 and primarily uses a butane-butylene stream that originates from the catalytic cracking units at the adjacent refinery to polymerize isobutene into polybutene.
- Whiting, IL, USA