Borouge - December 2019

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BOROUGE Plastics Made with Innovation, Value and

Sustainability in Mind PRODUCTION: Benjamin Southwold

Operating in one of the most exciting manufacturing industries in the Middle East, Borouge is able to provide a differentiated and innovative range of polyethylene and polypropylene plastics solutions for infrastructure applications, automotive components and advanced packaging. The company is continually seeking growth opportunities, and with selling products that will leak into the environment no longer a viable proposition, it does so with sustainability at the forefront of its collective mind. www.emea-energy.net / 3

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A joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s major oil and gas companies and Austria-based Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, Borouge is a ground-breaking visionary at the forefront of the next generation of plastics innovation.

“Borouge provides innovative, sustainable and value creating plastics solutions for infrastructure - pipe systems, and power and communication cables - automotive and advanced packaging application,” the company details. “These solutions address global challenges such as climate change, food protection, access to fresh water, energy conservation, healthcare and waste management.”

Based in the United Arab Emirates and with its marketing and sales head office in Singapore, Borouge employs more than 3000 people of over 40 nationalities, serving customers in 50 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Following its creation in 1998, Borouge was able in 2010 to triple

its Abu Dhabi plant’s annual production capacity to two million tonnes.

Borouge has also succeeded in adding Borstar® enhanced polypropylene to its product portfolio.

This is Borealis’ advanced multimodal proprietary technology for manufacturing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), which supports the production of a wide range of enhanced PE and PP products for the most demanding applications by enabling molecular design. It also delivers many improvements in key environmental aspects such as energy efficiency and raw material recycling.

Further expansion means that Borouge and Borealis today have a combined annual production capacity of approximately eight million tonnes of polyethylene and polypropylene.

Today, Borouge is a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions and is expanding its commercial and logistics network in the Middle East and Asia and investing in its Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi and Application Centre in Shanghai.

“Focused on our company mission,

value creation through innovation, we ensure that our customers throughout the value chain, around the world, can rely on differentiated products and reliability of supply,” the company states.

SUSTAINABILITY TOP PRIORITY “Our vision is to be the recognised leader in creative plastics solutions that have a positive impact on society today and tomorrow,” Borouge sets out. The responsible use and management of plastics has never been felt more keenly in society, and Borouge has made a point of placing this at the top of its priorities.

In 2016 Borouge’s 1 & 2 plants in Ruwais were certified by RINA Services, resulting in ISO 50001:2011 certification. Borouge has been working with RINA Services for a number of years to audit and certify the company’s quality, environment and energy management systems, and Borouge’s head offices in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, the company’s petrochemicals manufacturing facility in Ruwais, the compounding manufacturing plant in Shanghai and

NAPCON Solutions save energy and costs We at Neste Engineering Solutions are experts of oil refining and chemical industry energy efficiency since early 1980’s. We were amongst the first, who used pinch-technology in design of new process units as well as in optimization of old ones.

Ever since, we have added considerable value for the customer in form of improved energy efficiency. In 1995 we performed a total site analysis taking traditional pinch analysis even further and in 1999 we perfected the analysis method to become comprehensive in energy optimization.

Our combined approach of high level process know-how and modelling skills, pinch-technology, equipment expertise and automation solutions guarantee the most feasible solution with short pay back, or even without investment. We are Europe’s leading energy efficiency provider within the hydrocarbon industry and offer the entire path to improved energy efficiency from pre-study to improvement implementation and energy savings verification.

We are very proud of our continuous cooperation with the esteemed ADNOC-group of companies i.e. Borouge, TAKREER, Gasco and ADMA-OPCO, for whom we have delivered several projects with NAPCON solutions for improved energy and cost efficiency and operational optimization. We provide our customers with a comprehensive service and product offering including consulting services and a rigorous set of NAPCON solutions complete from process unit optimization to plant wide dynamic optimization, real-time information solutions such as energy and emission monitoring as well as product tracking and training solutions topped with high fidelity operator training simulators and serious games.

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a network of offices across the Asia Pacific region are all certified.

Abdulaziz Alhajri, former CEO of Borouge and now ADNOC’s refining and petrochemical Director, was clear as to the importance of this verification throughout the organisation.

“Identifying key opportunities to reduce energy consumption per tonne of production and thereby increasing our energy efficiency has been a major win for Borouge,” he said at the time.

“Adopting a phased approach, we decided that we should implement an Energy Management System in our petrochemical complex first and further roll it out to other operating companies. As we move ahead, we will continue to explore avenues to improve our energy performance.”

PROJECT STOP Since 2013, Borouge has also supported the massive Waste Free Environment clean-up campaign, together with strategic partners such

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as Fertil and Chemaweyaat and held annually in the UAE and Asia. Borouge has also worked for many years with the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi, most notably in the launch of the Sustainable Campus Initiative.

Borouge has just become a strategic partner of Project STOP, set up to establish new solutions and models that can be rapidly scaled up across the whole plastics chain, from plastic usage to waste collection and recycling. Its three key objectives are to achieve zero leakage of waste into the environment, increase resource efficiency and recycle more plastics, as well as create benefits for the local communities.

“Project STOP’s positive impact is proof that partnerships between industry and government can generate effective solutions for sustainable waste management and the prevention of marine litter,” said Alfred Stern, Borealis Chief Executive, which co-founded the initiative with SYSTEMIQ to prevent ocean plastic leakage.

“We are proud to be a strategic partner of Project STOP, working with partners and communities, to establish a plastics circular economy for waste management in Southeast Asia,” said Ahmed Omar Abdulla, CEO of Borouge. “At Borouge, the difference we have been making as partners of Project STOP is enormous since joining the programme in 2017, and we are committed to giving a new life to post-consumed plastics, scale up our efforts and continue making impact.”

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EXPANDING EXCELLENCE Borouge’s dedication to both excellence and outstanding performance were recognised in its being judged in the gold category of the prestigious Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Awards (SKEA), coming just two years after the company took home the same prize. “It is a great honour to receive this award which clearly embodies the hard work, dedication and remarkable performance of every employee at Borouge,” effused Ahmed Omar Abdulla.

“Having proudly received this prestigious award twice under the gold category strengthens our leading position as a major local producer of

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petrochemicals and a key player in the UAE’s economic development.”

Borouge’s commitment to excellence unlocks opportunities and growth for both itself and its customers, most recently embodied in the award to TechnipFMC, Maire Tecnimont and WorleyParsons of three major contracts for the fourth phase of the Ruwais petrochemicals complex.

The work will include the world’s largest mixed feed cracker, the fourth in the Borouge complex and boasting a 1.8 million tonne annual ethylene output.

It will have the capacity to produce 3.3 million tonnes overall of olefins and aromatics using a variety of feedstocks such as Ethane, Butane and Naphtha, coming from ADNOC’s refinery and gas processing facilities. Both ADNOC and Borealis intend to finalise the downstream configuration within three months, following the front-end engineering and design (FEED) award.

“The mixed feed cracker is unique as it enables many new petrochemical

building blocks to be available in Ruwais for the first time, thereby transforming Ruwais into an even more advanced integrated refining and petrochemicals complex,” said Abdulaziz Alhajri. “The new project will significantly contribute to achieving ADNOC’s growth ambitions as well as those of Borouge.”

“The mixed feed cracker is not only a new milestone in Borouge’s history, it is also a new step forward in Borealis’ growth strategy in the Middle East,” appended Alfred Stern, Borealis Chief Executive. “The project, which reflects the strength of our strong partnership with ADNOC, ideally embodies Borealis’ commitment and willingness to continue contributing to the development of the UAE through Borouge.”

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