Borealis in Sweden

Borealis, the only polyethylene (PE) producer in Sweden, is located in Stenungsund, 50 km north of Gothenburg, where we are the biggest employer in the city’s industrial cluster. 

Principally focused on the wire and cable, and pipe manufacturing, Borealis in Sweden supports customers with speciality plastics for some of the largest energy supply, oil and water pipeline projects in the world.

A total of 940 people are employed in Stenungsund.

Our cracker plant in Stenungsund is one of the most flexible in Europe, using naphtha, ethane, propane and butane as feedstock. These raw materials are delivered by ship directly to our harbour in Stenungsund, where more than 400 ship movements each year serve our import and export requirements. With a capacity of 620,000 tonnes of ethylene and 228,000 tonnes propylene per year, the cracker's main products are ethylene and propylene, which are used to produce high density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), and Borstar® PE products, primarily for  pipe and wire and cable applications.

Borealis' operations in Sweden also include an Innovation Centre focused on polymer design, scientific services, and  research and development (R&D) for our infrastructure industry solutions. These services are provided to the Borealis Group based on contract R&D.

Continued investment in production capacity

In 2010, Borealis in Sweden completed an over EUR 400 million investment in a new 350,000 t/y high pressure, low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant, enhancing its capability to provide advanced materials for wire and cable applications.