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Borealis starts up demonstration heat-recovery unit based on Qpinch technology By Mary Page Bailey | May 7, 2021 Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria) announced that its open-innovation collaboration with Qpinch, the creators of a revolutionary and patented heat recovery technology, has passed an important milestone. The first-ever application of the unique Qpinch technology at commercial scale has been achieved upon the technical completion and start-up of a new demonstrational unit. Located in an existing Borealis low-density polyethylene (LDPE) production location at Europe’s largest chemical cluster in the port of Antwerp (Belgium), the heat-recovery unit will test the technology’s capabilities as well as its scale-up potential for Borealis plants in other parts of the world. The collaboration is especially advantageous because it allows Borealis to take major strides in its efforts to lower CO2 emissions while at the same time increasing production efficiency a ....
May 5, 2021 The first application of a patented heat recovery technology pioneered by Qpinch, in open-innovation collaboration with Borealis, has achieved commercial scale after start-up of a new demonstrational unit. Located in an existing Borealis LDPE production location at Europe’s largest chemical cluster in the port of Antwerp (Belgium), the heat recovery unit will test the technology’s capabilities as well as its scale-up potential for Borealis plants in other parts of the world. The collaboration allows Borealis to take strides in its efforts to lower carbon dioxide emissions, while at the same time increasing production efficiency and maintaining cost competitiveness. ....