Borealis in Austria

Borealis has a long tradition in Austria. It contains the Innovation Headquarters and  Borealis Agrolinz Melamine GmbH in Linz and a production site in Schwechat, close to Vienna. 

Borealis feels an obligation to the Responsible Care® principles. Health, safety and the environment are an absolute company priority.

In Austria, Borealis employs around 1,660 people, including the Head Office, which is located in Vienna. 

Production in Schwechat

Borealis in Schwechat produces about 1 million tonnes of polyolefins which are provided to customers for infrastructure, advanced packaging and automotive applications for the German, Austrian, Swiss and Italian markets. Ethylene and propylene feedstocks are supplied via pipeline from the adjacent OMV refinery ethylene plant.

Borealis has two polypropylene plants (PP), one Borstar polyethylene plant (PE), two low density polyethylene plants (LDPE) and one compounding unit.

International Innovation Headquarters in Linz

The expansion of the international Innovation Headquarters in Linz, including an application hall, storage facilities, a state-of-the-art polymerisation laboratory and office building as well as a customer service center, was completed in autumn 2009.

This event is the culmination of approximately one and a half years of construction and a total investment volume of EUR 50 million. About 350 international Borealis employees from over 30 countries, working in research and product development as well as in marketing and sales, are developing plastic materials of the future for Borealis' global customers and housed in the Innovation Headquarters.

Borealis announced in late 2009 an additional investment of EUR 75 million in a semi-commercial catalyst plant in Linz to develop and scale up new catalysts for the production of innovative new polymers.

Besides focusing on the development of innovative, value-creating plastics solutions, we never lose sight of our responsibility to be a good neighbour to the local communities in which we operate.    

Melamine, fertilizer and technical nitrogen production in Linz

Borealis Agrolinz Melamine GmbH in Linz produces up to 2 million tonnes of base chemicals and about 50,000 tonnes of melamine per year. Melamine is used for coatings, compounds for houseware and fireblockers. Besides melamine, a broad range of fertilizer products and special chemicals are manufactured in Linz. Complex fertilizers, Calcium Ammonium Nitrate, Ammonia, Urea, Guanidine Carbonate and AdBlue® are only a few of them.

The base chemicals business in Linz, is together with the Innovation Headquarters the biggest Borealis location worldwide.