Borouge opens Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi

In celebration of the UAE Innovation Week, Borouge inaugurated on November 24 its Innovation Centre in Abu Dhabi. The Centre plays an important role in the company's commitment to deliver sustainable, creative and value-added plastics to global customers.

His Highness Sheikh Nayhan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, were the guests of honor in a ceremony that was also attended by members of royalty, high-ranking dignitaries from the oil and gas and petrochemical industries as well as prominent figures of the Abu Dhabi Government and business community.

Located at Sas Al Nakhl in Abu Dhabi, the new hi-tech facility serves as the focal point of innovation and research in the field of polymer development and application technology. Based on a corporate mission of ‘Value Creation through Innovation’, the Borouge Innovation Centre provides value-added plastics solutions for customers worldwide, focusing on infrastructure, automotive and advanced packaging industries.  

Since the inception of research and development operations two year ago, the Borouge Innovation Centre has filed over 200 patents – accounting for about 30% of all patents registered in the World Intellectual Property Organisation database filed by UAE applicants. Around 15% of products currently produced by Borouge have been developed at the Innovation Centre. It is expected that within the next five years the Innovation Centre will have filed around 750 patents, with new products accounting for around 1 million tonnes, or 25%, of annual sales.

The Borouge Innovation Centre includes extensive laboratory and application development resources, supporting Borouge’s unique capability in providing expertise in polymer analysis, processing, and application testing. With over 70 researchers, scientists and technicians, including more than 25 UAE nationals, the Borouge Innovation Centre works closely with the European innovation centres of Borealis, a joint-venture partner of the Company along with ADNOC.  The Innovation Centre also collaborates with leading international and local educational bodies such as the Petroleum Institute and Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi to further develop the competence of polymer science in the UAE.

The new Innovation Centre strongly supports Borouge’s expansion and growth strategies especially now that its new mega Borouge 3 plant has come on stream, increasing the Company’s total production capacity to 4.5 million tonnes per year, and making Borouge the largest integrated, single-sited polyolefins complex in the world.