# Covestro breaks ground on €300M aniline plant in Antwerp

Covestro has broken ground on a new aniline production facility in Antwerp, Belgium, with an investment of over €300 million. The plant is scheduled to be operational in early 2025 and will create around 40 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2022-10-12
- Where: Antwerp, Belgium
- Value: $300.0M (300.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 40
- Starts operating: Jan 2025
- Status: under construction
- Products: aniline
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Covestro](https://endata.com/companies/1705.md)

## Sources

- [covestro.com](https://www.covestro.com/press/groundbreaking-ceremony-for-new-aniline-production-plant/), 2022-10-12: "Covestro broke ground today in Antwerp for a new world scale production facility for the manufacture of aniline."
- [european-coatings.com](https://www.european-coatings.com/news/markets-companies/covestro-breaks-ground-for-new-aniline-production-plant/), 2022-11-02: "The new aniline plant is scheduled to be operational – depending on the volatile economic situation – in early 2025."

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