Borealis at a glance

With more than 40 years of experience in polyolefins and using our unique Borstar® technology, we focus on providing plastic materials to the infrastructure, automotive and advanced packaging markets across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Our production facilities, innovation centres and service centres work with customers in more than 120 countries to provide materials that make an essential contribution to society and sustainable development. We are committed to the principles of Responsible Care® and to leading the way in Shaping the Future with Plastics™.

Our polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) products continue to enhance society and address challenges such as providing clean drinking water and sanitation to millions of people around the globe and safe, light, energy-saving components for cars and aeroplanes. We live by our values of Responsible, Respect, Exceed and Nimblicity™ – a value we created as an expression of what makes us different.

From simple everyday products that make life easier to step-changing technological developments, we are leading the way and Shaping the Future with Plastics. 

Feedstocks and olefins

As an integrated polyolefins company, Borealis ensures a secure, cost-efficient supply of hydrocarbon feedstocks for our crackers, and olefins for our PE and PP plants.

Borealis purchases basic feedstocks from the oil and gas industries and converts these into ethylene and propylene through its olefin units. These feedstocks include:

• Naphtha
• Butane
• Propane
• Ethane

Our steam crackers in Finland, Sweden, and Abu Dhabi (joint venture with ADNOC) produce both ethylene and propylene, while propylene is also produced in a propane dehydrogenation plant in Belgium. The balance of our olefin needs is sourced primarily from one of our owners, OMV. We also sell a variety of co-products from the cracking process.

Innovation

Innovation plays a central role in Borealis’ strategy of creating and delivering value to customers. Borealis’ polymer research and product development focuses on high-performance, cost-effective, differentiated polymers. Approximately 10% of our workforce makes up our technology organisation at three Innovation Centres in Austria, Finland and Sweden, which act to minimise the time to market for new products.

Approximately 30% percent of Borealis’ research and development budget is dedicated to reaching far beyond the customers' current challenges to tomorrow’s solutions. Borstar technology is revolutionising the scope of plastics solutions possible today and in the future.