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Focus on
September 2012January 3
Technology platform
for wire and cable
industry
Borealis and Borouge have launched
Borlink™, a technology platform offering
a complete global package of power
materials, experience, knowledge and
support.
Borlink is a wire and cable industry-wide
platform cross-linking technology,
products and expertise to connect
networks and grids as well as people and
their access to energy.
Borealis is a provider of chemical and
innovative plastics solutions that create
value for society.
With sales of €7.1bn in 2011, customers
in over 120 countries, and around
5,300 employees worldwide, Borealis is
owned 64 per cent by the International
Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC)
of Abu Dhabi and 36 per cent by OMV, a
leading energy group in the European
growth belt.
Borealis is headquartered in Vienna,
Austria, and has production locations,
innovation centres and customer service
centres across Europe and the Americas.
Through Borouge, a joint venture
between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi
National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of
the world’s major oil and gas companies,
the company’s footprint reaches out to
the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Indian
sub-continent and Africa.
Building on Borealis’s Borstar and
Borlink technologies, and more than
50 years’ experience in polyolefins,
Borealis and Borouge provide innovative,
value-creating plastics solutions for
infrastructure (pipe systems and power
and communication cables), automotive
and advanced packaging markets. In
addition, Borealis offers a wide range
of base chemicals from melamine and
fertiliser to phenol and acetone.
Borealis AG – Austria
Website:
Wire rope technologies
Teufelberger is a specialist manufacturer
of ropes and strapping, headquartered in
Austria.
Its wire rope division focuses on
the research and development,
manufacturing, marketing and sales
of high-performance special steel wire
ropes.
Two manufacturing sites and 220 staff
generate an annual sales volume of about
6mn metres of premium quality steel
wire rope. Key customers include original
equipment manufacturers, distributors,
and end-users of ropeways, crane
applications used for transportation,
building and construction, and offshore,
as well as of forestry equipment.
The requirements that special steel
▲ ▲ Evolution TK18 by Teufelberger
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