Borealis in Sweden

Borealis, the only polyethylene (PE) producer in Sweden, is located in Stenungsund, 50 km north of Göteborg, 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.

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 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 2007, Borealis in Sweden announced a EUR 370 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. This complements the additional cross-linkable polyethylene (XLPE) capacity coming on stream during the second half of the year.