# Borouge to build PP5 unit and fourth cracker in Ruwais

Borouge is expanding its integrated polyolefins complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, with a fifth polypropylene unit (PP5) with annual output of 480,000 tonnes and a fourth mixed-feed cracker with annual ethylene output of 18 million tonnes, raising total polyolefins capacity to 5 million tonnes by 2021.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2019-11-14
- Where: Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Starts operating: 2021
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 5 million tonnes per year (total polyolefins); 480,000 tonnes per year (PP5); 18 million tonnes per year (ethylene cracker)
- Products: polypropylene, polyethylene, ethylene
- Sectors: [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md), [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Borouge](https://endata.com/companies/8678.md)

## Sources

- [wirecable.in](https://www.wirecable.in/borouge-and-borealis-committed-to-sustainability/), 2019-11-14: "The expansion plans for Ruwais include the building of a fifth polypropylene unit PP5, which has an annual output of 480,000 tonnes and will raise our total polyolefins production capacity to 5 million tonnes by 2021, and a fourth cracker, which will be the world’s largest mixed-feed cracker with an"

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