# BASF to expand ethylene oxide and derivatives complex in Antwerp with €500M+ investment

BASF will expand its ethylene oxide and derivatives complex at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium, with an investment exceeding €500 million, adding about 400,000 metric tons per year of production capacity. Sequential start-up of new capacities begins in 2022.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2019-09-29
- Where: Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium
- Value: $550.0M (500.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2022
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 400,000 metric tons per year
- Products: ethylene oxide, ethylene oxide derivatives, non-ionic surfactants, glycol ethers, alkoxylates
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [BASF](https://endata.com/companies/298.md)

## Sources

- [basf.com](https://www.basf.com/global/en/media/news-releases/2019/09/p-19-336), 2019-09-29: "This significant capacity expansion will enable BASF to support the continuous growth of customers in Europe."
- [ogj.com](https://www.ogj.com/refining-processing/article/14069422/basf-advances-capacity-expansion-at-antwerp-complex), 2019-10-28: "At a total investment amounting to more than €500 million, the expansion will add a second large EO plant at the site to increase production capacity by about 400,000 tonnes/year."

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