Borealis and Borouge to highlight continued innovation in plastics materials and applications at wire Düsseldorf

17.01.2012

Messe Düsseldorf, Hall 10, Stand D72
March 26-30, 2012
Düsseldorf, Germany

Borealis and Borouge, the world’s leading providers of innovative, value-creating plastics solutions for the wire and cable industry, will highlight their continued innovations at “wire Düsseldorf 2012.” The international wire and cable trade fair will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany from March 26-30.

Borealis and Borouge supply materials for a wide range of energy transmission and distribution cables from low voltage (LV) to extra-high voltage (EHV), as well as electrical and fibre optic communication cables, under the brand names SupercureTM, Visico/AmbicatTM and Borstar®. With more than 45 years of experience, Borealis and Borouge provide consistently high quality polyolefins compounds for the wire and cable industry.

Borealis was recently awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2011 Europe Product Leadership Award in High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Cable Insulation Market, illustrating the continuous commitment in providing high quality, market and customer driven solutions. Borealis and Borouge set themselves apart from others in the industry with their extensive experience; understanding the market demands and capacity to go above and beyond market demands.

At wire Düsseldorf 2012, technology leaders Borealis and Borouge will offer insight into their innovative approach to develop and produce solutions with their unique proprietary technology for power cables. Through this world-class technology, it is possible to produce cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation and semicon products with consistent quality and the highest purity. This is primarily enabled through the application of a closed production loop – from the monomer to final packaging. Consequently this gives power cable manufacturers the opportunity to enter high end and most demanding applications with XLPE cable solutions such as EHV and DC power cables.

“As leading innovators in the wire and cable industry, Borealis and Borouge have proven to be long-term, reliable assets to the industry,” says Marc Hubert, Borealis’ Vice President for Wire and Cable. “With our proprietary technology for XLPE and semicon compounds, we have invested in our future and that of our customers and will continue to provide them with new, exciting innovations. I encourage our existing and potential new customers to visit us to find out more about our unique proprietary technology and the corresponding latest power cable solutions which will be revealed on our stand.”

For further information about Borealis please contact:

Dorothea Wiplinger
External Communications Manager
Vienna, Austria
+43 1 22 400 608
dorothea.wiplinger@borealisgroup.com

Borealis and Borouge Business Units Wire & Cable

Borealis is the world’s leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions for the wire and cable industry. Our solutions are customer-driven and designed to satisfy the industry’s continuously evolving demands for higher technical performance. They can be found in the most challenging extra-high voltage (EHV) and high voltage (HV) cable applications, as well as medium voltage (MV) and low voltage (LV) energy transmission and distribution cables, building wires, and communications cables. In answer to the need for production, installation and cable-system lifetime enhancements, we create the innovation links that secure world-class, step-changing solutions and benefit the whole wire and cable value chain.

About Borealis and Borouge

Borealis is a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions that create value for society. With sales of EUR 6.3 billion in 2010, customers in over 120 countries, and around 5,100 employees worldwide, Borealis is owned 64% by the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi and 36% by OMV, the leading energy group in the European growth belt. Borealis is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has production locations, innovation centres and customer service centres across Europe and the Americas.

Through Borouge, a joint venture between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s major oil and gas companies, the company’s footprint reaches out to the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Indian sub-continent and Africa. Established in 1998, Borouge employs approximately 1,600 people, has customers in more than 50 countries and its headquarters are in Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Singapore.

Building on Borealis’ unique Borstar® technology and their more than 50 years experience in polyolefins, Borealis and Borouge provide innovative, value creating plastics solutions for the infrastructure (pipe systems and power and communication cables), automotive and advanced packaging markets. In addition, Borealis offers a wide range of base chemicals from melamine and fertilizer to phenol and acetone.

Today Borealis and Borouge have a manufacturing capacity of over 5.4 million tonnes of polyolefins (polyethylene and polypropylene) per year having recently completed a 1.5 million tonne expansion in Abu Dhabi.The Borouge 3 plant expansion will be completed at the end of 2013 with a further capacity of 2.5 million tonnes per year (t/y) being fully operational in mid-2014. The companies continue to invest to ensure that their customers throughout the value chain and across the globe, can always rely on product quality, consistency and security of supply.

Borouge and Borealis are committed to the principles of Responsible Care® and proactively contribute to addressing the world’s water and sanitation challenges through their Water for the World™ initiative.

For more information visit:
www.borealisgroup.com
www.borouge.com
www.waterfortheworld.net

Supercure, Visico/Ambicat, Water for the World are trademarks of the Borealis group.

Borstar is a registered trademark of the Borealis group.

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