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CHEMICALS &PROCESS CHEMICALS & PROCESS TEES VALLEY INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES The UK chemicals sector is increasing at a rate of 3.6% per year, and accounted for Located on the North East coast, Tees Valley is a high-growth, corridors connecting manufacturing sites, bulk industrial gas high-value area and a global leader for the chemical and and effluent treatment plants. Tees Valley is also home to the £12.1billion of the UK’s GVA in 2016. Since 1990, output has grown by 27%, making it process industry. With one of the most significant integrated world-renowned Wilton International, the largest private- one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors. industrial economies in the world, the region produces wire electricity network in the UK. around 30% of the UK’s chemical output and is home to The Chemistry Growth Partnership, an initiative run by The Northern Powerhouse contributes 48% of the UK’s some of the world’s biggest chemical manufacturers. Tees Valley is home to one of the biggest gas crackers in the government and industry, has the responsibility of chemical production and is by far the largest region in terms Europe, owned by SABIC. The firm is currently undertaking determining the future roadmap of the sector, with other of output for the sector. This is based upon three strong Tees Valley’s chemical industry is concentrated across a the region’s largest process sector investment in a Governmental bodies and Local Authorities also offering clusters interlinked by strong East-West supply chains and relatively small area with a well-developed infrastructure. generation – the Teesside gas cracker conversion. support and investment. associated pipeline connectors of key raw materials. The three main sites of Wilton International, Billingham, and Seal Sands & North Tees run approximately 12 miles Support for growth is provided by the Centre for Process A total of 97% of the UK chemicals sector is made up of The Northern Powerhouse employs 44% of the UK chemical east to west either side of the River Tees and contain major Innovation (CPI), an independent innovation centre that SMEs and microbusinesses, numbering around 2,500. The and process sector workforce. Northern Powerhouse international companies such as Huntsman, INEOS, SABIC, supports the development of the UK process industry and remaining 3% comprises large, multinational companies. universities provide a quarter of the UK science, technology, Lucite, Lotte, CF Industries and Sembcorp. UK manufacturing; Materials Processing Institute, a globally It is a highly diverse sector, including speciality chemicals, engineering and mathematics graduates, representing recognised centre for the innovation, development and polymers, consumer chemicals and commodity chemicals. a significant opportunity to meet local demand for The region is a world-class centre for the petrochemicals, commercialisation of technology for advanced materials, professional talent. energy, bio-resources and advanced manufacturing industry. low-carbon energy and the circular economy; and NEPIC, As the UK’s largest manufacturing exporter in value added, Tees Valley is at the forefront of pioneering opportunities for the North East Process Industry Cluster, a membership chemicals has a turnover of approximately £50billion per Without the activities of the UK chemical and process the sector, including industrial carbon capture, utilisation organisation for the chemical sector that works with the year, with £26billion value of overseas trade. sector, related downstream industries would not function and storage and the hydrogen economy. industry to ensure the region is one of the most competitive as effectively within the UK. Therefore, the sector is a key and successful chemical processing locations in Europe. component of national and international supply chains. The area’s supportive infrastructure includes a deep water port, significant tank farm logistics facilities, pipeline 2 | Chemicals and Process Chemicals and Process | 3 TEES VALLEY’S INTEGRATED COMPLEX Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is one of the Ensus produces 400,000 litres of bio-ethanol per year and world’s leading petrochemicals companies, both in terms of 350,000 tonnes of dried protein animal feed, making it one of sales and product diversity. the largest plants in Europe Tees Valley is home to the largest chemical complex in the UK, and the second largest in Europe in terms of manufacturing capacity. More than 1,400 companies in Tees SABIC UK Petrochemicals has major manufacturing assets at the Wilton International site which include the cracker Valley are directly involved in chemicals and process industry. The sector exports complex and a low density polyethylene plant, as well as an CF Industries is the UK’s leading manufacturer of ammonia, nitric £12billion of product, contributing £2.5billion a year to the local economy. ethane import facility on the north side of the Tees acid, ammonium nitrate and granular fertilisers EDF Energy Key ConocoPhillips Crude Oil Storage Nuclear Power Station BOC – Linde operates one of the Existing Pipe Corridors world’s largest industrial gas pipeline Existing Tunnels Venator grids supplying hydrogen, oxygen, Tioxide Existing CO Exports nitrogen and argon 2 Ports Seal Sands / © Crown Copyright. All rights North Tees ConocoPhillips reserved LA100020967L 2015 Crude Oil Processing After acquiring existing assets at Wilton Chemical Sites International, Lotte Chemical invested © Copyright The GeoInformation Inter Terminals Group 2015 CATS in a new polyethylene terephthalate Chemical Storage Importer of Gas (PET) manufacturing plant alongside its Victrex existing assets BDF / PX Composites Greenergy APS Growers Teesside Gas Biodiesel Greenhouses Processing Plant Fine Organics Navigator Terminals Venator develops speciality titanium Waste heat / CO2 to grow tomatoes Fine Chemicals Chemical Storage dioxide pigments and performance FUJIFILM Diosynth SABIC British Steel additives. The company has a major Bio Pharmaceuticals Underground Steel / Beams / Marlow Chemical & Trafigura Manufacturer manufacturing facility in the area, Hydrogen Storage Foods LNG coupled with its global business centre SNF FMC Quorn Speciality Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Sirius Huntsman N&P Group BOC Mineral Polyurethanes Johnson Matthey Air Separation Processing Refuse Derived INEOS Catalyst Fuel Unit SITA Nitriles SABIC Lucite International is the global Waste to Ethylene (Cracker) Offshore BOC MGT leader in acrylic based products. The CF Industries Energy /Polythene Structures Steam Methane Billingham site is one of the largest Nitrogen Fertilisers Biomass Power Britain Reformer within the company producing methyl Offshore Wind CPI methacrylate (MMA), methacrylic acid TWI Sembcorp Biomass Power Station Manufacturing (MAA) and n-butyl methacrylate (nBMA) SABIC Wilton Billingham The Welding Institute Ethane Import Power / Utilities Catapult Facility International Chemical Site Sembcorp EFW Power Station Solvay Power / Utilities Research / Enriching lives through innovation Biffa Composites Lucite Port Clarence ICGL Polymer Huntsman Polyurethanes has an Acrylics Energy Bitumen Recycling Calysta Chemoxy Mitsubishi aniline plant and a nitrobenzene plant Fine Chemicals Biomass Power Protein Manufacturer Chemicals Nippon Gases at Wilton - both of which are the largest Materials Applied Graphene Li-ion Battery / CO of their type in the world. The key Processing Institute 2 Electrolyte Chemoxy Crop feedstocks for the plants are nitric acid, Materials and Lotte Chemicals Energies FUJIFILM benzene and hydrogen Fine Chemicals Process Innovation Diosynth PET / Plastics Biofuels Bio Pharmaceuticals 4 | Chemicals and Process Chemicals and Process | 5 LOGISTICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE Bulk Storage and Logistics Utilities Gas and Steam The bulk facilities in Tees Valley are world-class. Major This cargo is handled by PD Ports’ ro-ro, container Tees Valley is home to the UK’s largest private-wire Natural gas is available to businesses in Tees Valley operators Inter Terminals and Navigator Terminals offer terminals and general cargo berths and is strongly electricity distribution network and, as such, competitively through our gas distribution network. It is competitively clients extensive storage and handling solutions in Tees associated with Tees Valley’s petrochemicals, priced, low-carbon power can be provided, enabling priced compared to the rest of the UK due to access to Valley. In total the companies operate over 270 tanks, with manufacturing and engineering sectors. manufacturers to realise significant savings on both capex short-haul gas via the North Sea and the utilisation of the a combined storage capacity of over 500,000m3. These are and opex compared to other UK locations. region’s excellent infrastructure. CATS currently transports fully integrated with the adjacent petrochemical complexes Tees Valley is a major hub for the movement of rail freight, gas from more than 30 producing fields in the Central at Billingham and Wilton. Customers are connected by with more rail-linked sites than any other comparable Tees Valley’s effluent water treatment plant at Bran Sands North Sea and in 2017 delivered over five billion cubic a series of pipelines which transfer cargo from quayside area in the north of England. The Tees is the only port in is the largest combined industrial and municipal effluent metres of gas (approximately 14% of UK gas production storage to customers located on both sides of the river. the north of England with existing