Borealis and Borouge are leading providers of innovative, value creating plastics solutions. With more than 40 years of experience in polyolefins and using our unique Borstar® technology, we focus on the infrastructure, automotive and advanced packaging markets.

We have production facilities, innovation centres and service centres across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific and work with customers in more than 170 countries around the world to provide plastic materials that make an essential contribution to society and to sustainable development.
We are committed to the principles of Responsible Care® and to leading the way in "Shaping the Future with Plastics"™. 

See www.borealisgroup.com and  www.borouge.com

Borealis and Borouge are members of the IWA. The International Water Association is a global network of water professionals spanning the continuum between research and practice and covering all facets of the water life cycle.

It is comprised of leading water professionals in science, research, technology and practice.  IWA runs a series of events, projects, interest and specialist groups helping members to share views, enhance knowledge and contribute to water development worldwide.

See www.iwahq.org/

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 200 international companies that share a commitment to the principles of sustainable development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.

With the support of Borouge,  Borealis co-chairs with ITT Corporation the WBCSD’s water project to advance business leadership in sustainable management of water. The WBCSD water project has delivered a series of landmark reports and has launched in August 2007 a Global Water Tool to map company's water footprint. 

See www.wbcsd.org

Working in poor urban areas, WSUP is an innovative organisation that brings together local and global expertise to provide sustainable water and sanitation solutions for poor communities.  WSUP gathers the expertise of leading NGOs (WWF, Care International UK, WaterAid, Water for people), business (Thames Water, Unilever, Halcrow group, Borealis and Borouge) and academics (Cranfield University).

See our case story presenting WSUP  or visit www.wsup.com

The Stockholm Water Prize is a global award presented annually to an individual, organisation or institution for outstanding water-related activities.
Borealis and Borouge co-found the prize with a group of leading international companies in cooperation with the City of Stockholm.

The prize is administered by SIWI - the Stockholm International Water Institute for the Stockholm Water Foundation. SIWI organises the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, administers the Swedish Water House, hosts the UNDP Water Governance Facility and works in a number of international water projects, above all within the policy development and capacity building areas, through different commissioned assignments.

See our case stories on the Stockholm Water Prize or visit www.siwi.org.

Borealis has joined in April 2009 the Business Friends of the Danube partnership, an initiative to protect the resources and ecosystems of Europe’s second longest river, the Danube.  

The Business Friends of the Danube partnership was launched in 2008 by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), the international organisation gathering 14 countries and the European Union to ensure that water within the Danube River basin is managed and used in a sustainable and equitable way.

See www.ICPDR.org or read Borealis' press release