Borouge, a leading petrochemicals company and joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Austria-based Borealis, jointly organized a technical seminar with their agent in Sri Lanka, Falco International Trading Pte Ltd., for rigid and flexible packaging stakeholders.
Falco International Trading Pte Ltd., established in 1995, is an import and export trading company and acts as agents and manufacturer’s representative for international manufacturers of industrial raw materials for the plastics, rubber, tire and flexible packaging film industries. Falco also does consultancy work for a number of industries including the water sector.
Falco international Trading Pte Ltd., Managing Director Shakir Lukmanjee welcomed the gathering to the Technical Seminar and stated that Borouge was commited to the Sri Lanka market and had been nurturing the Sri Lankan polymer market since 2001.
The technical seminar was held at the Spice Room, Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo on Friday 13th Dec 2019. The event was full house and well represented by all leading converters and value chain members of the Sri Lankan packaging and plastic industry.
Borouge provides innovative, sustainable and value creating plastics solutions for infrastructure (pipe systems and power and communication cables), automotive and advanced packaging applications that address global challenges such as climate change, food protection, access to fresh water, energy conservation, healthcare and waste management. With its base in the United Arab Emirates and marketing and sales head office in Singapore, Borouge employs more than 3,000 people representing over 40 nationalities and serves customers in 50 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Borouge Vice President Indian Sub-continent, Sandeep Puri highlighted Borouge’s commitment for Sri Lankan packaging industry. He mentioned that Sri Lankan market is a strategic location for subcontinent growth story and will continue to provide dedicated technical support to this market to develop value added solutions for stakeholders.
As a responsible petrochemicals company, Borouge believes that achieving a zero waste plastics circular economy requires strong and concerted actions by governments, businesses, consumers and community.
During technical seminar Borouge introduced many new products. Anteo™ - a Bimodal Terpolymer LLDPE based on the latest proprietary Borstar® Bimodal Smart Catalyst PE technology offers an outstanding sealing performance with superior puncture and tear resistance.
This seminar was the official launch of Borstar FB5600 in the Sri Lankan market.
Borouge’s team mentioned and touched on their popular polypropylene random and block copolymer product portfolio and their attributes to achieve differentiated solution at the market place. Here, Borouge will bring more market driven solutions from their next expansion by 2021 with new PP plant having capacity 480,000MT.
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