Borouge urges SMEs into plastics sector

Borouge organised a workshop with Khalifa Fund, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), Abu Dhabi Ports and its subsidiary Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) to give an overview about polymers industry and its significant role in the economic development and to discuss ways of collaboration and potential opportunities to attract small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the industry.

 

Driven by its new brand position of INSPIRING TOMORROW through creating value and driving the industry into new horizons, Borouge aimed through this workshop to bring together the three government bodies to inspire future and encourage the development of polymers conversion in Abu Dhabi. 

 

 

As Ahmed Al Shamsi, Senior Vice President Regional MEAE at Borouge put it: “The workshop was an important activity with the most influential economic authorities in Abu Dhabi where we agreed on supporting the involvement of more plastics convertors into our industry and help boost the petrochemicals and polymers businesses.” He stressed Borouge’s leading role in the development of polymers industry with the differentiated portfolio of innovative plastics solutions the company provides for infrastructure, packaging and energy applications. 

 

The workshop concluded with a visit to the Borouge Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi where the participants learned about the creative work Borouge is carrying out to develop new grades of polymers that add value to businesses, allowing Borouge to better support its customers and respond to their needs. Providing expertise in polymer analysis, processing, and application testing, the Borouge Innovation Centre has been granted over 178 patents for new developed value-added grades of polymers out of more than 597 patents that the company has filed so far at the World Intellectual Property Organisation database.