VOL. XLV

No 5

4-February-2002

UAE

BorougeBegins Exports Of Polyethylene

Abu Dhabi Polymers Company(Borouge) on 29 January announced the start of exports from its 600,000ton/year ethylene cracker part of a $1.2bn petrochemicals complex at Ruwaisthat came on-stream in December last year (MEES,24/31 December 2001). The first shipments have been sent to Egypt and India.The exports will be handled by Borouge PTE, a Singapore-based subsidiary of thecompany. A Borouge statement said that one third of...