Borouge and Falco promote sustainable advanced packaging solutions in Sri Lanka
Borouge, a leading petrochemicals company and joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Austria-based Borealis, jointly organised 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, tyre and flexible packaging film industries.
Falco also does consultancy work for a number of industries, including the water sector. Falco has developed a strong reputation within the Sri Lankan market as a reliable supplier of raw materials to key local industries.
Falco International Trading Pte Ltd Managing Director Shakir Lukmanjee welcomed the gathering to the technical seminar and stated that Borouge was committed to the Sri Lanka market and had been nurturing the Sri Lankan polymer market since 2001.
The technical seminar was held at Spice Room, Shangri-la Hotel, Colombo, recently. 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 the 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. He emphasised Borouge’s commitment and focused approached towards sustainability and circular economy.
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 the 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. This bimodal HDPE provides superior stiffness, high barrier, low gel, outstanding ESCR combined with good processing.
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 the new PP plant having capacity 480,000MT.
Application Development Manager Middle East, Africa, Europe and Indian Subcontinent Peter Malmros conveyed Borouge’s commitment towards circular economy and detailed about its future activities in this area.
Falco International Trading Pte Ltd Director Farida Lukmanjee gave the vote of thanks at the end of a highly successful technical seminar by thanking all the customers for their continued support and cooperation and assured to continue providing superior products from Borouge and to have more technical seminars, regular customer visits and joint trials with customers when needed.
Borouge’s entire packaging team was present at the event: Vice President Indian Subcontinent Sandeep Puri, Manager Application Development MEAE/ISC Peter Malmros, Regional Market Development Manager ISC Pratyush Bandyopadhyay, Regional Market Development Manager ISC Nitin Bokarey, Application Marketing Manager Packaging ISC Sanchita Roy, Channel Manager ISC Anindya Ray, Application Development Eng Flexible ISC Pavan Kumar Thakor and Customer Service Officer ISC Sonali Chavda.
Borouge, with 4.5 million metric tonnes of annual capacity of polyethylene and polypropylene, is focused on its company mission – value creation through innovation and people and ensures that its customers and end users throughout the value chain, around the world, can rely on differentiated products and supply.
A joint venture between ADNOC and Borealis, Borouge is a leading petrochemicals company that provides innovative plastics solutions for the energy, infrastructure, mobility, packaging, healthcare and agriculture industries. With 4.5 million tonnes of annual capacity, Borouge’s integrated polyolefin complex is the world’s largest.
Borouge is committed to the principles of sustainability and is a signatory to the chemical industry’s Responsible Care Global Charter. Together with Borealis, Borouge is proactively addressing the world’s water and sanitation challenges through the Water for the World initiative.