Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth US$ 111 million to Alpine Bau Deutschland AG to construct the non-process buildings of the Borouge 3 expansion project being executed in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The Borouge 3 mega-project, which is already well underway at Ruwais, will increase the total production capacity of the petrochemicals plant by 2.5 million tonnes per year to 4.5 million tonnes of polyolefins annually by 2014.
Borouge is a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world’s major oil companies, and Austrian based Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions.