Borouge awards $111m contract to Alpine

Borouge, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth $ 111 million to Alpine Bau Deutschland to construct the non-process buildings of the Borouge 3 expansion project being executed in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

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.

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