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Fire incident breaks out at Borealis in Complastic Srl and Negri Bossi in
Stenungsund, Sweden collaboration to produce glasses and facial
shields to face COVID-19

egri Bossi who since April 9, 2020 has been using
Ntwo injection machines to produce masks for the
community through the help of the Lombard Civil
Protection to counter the spread of COVID-19, the
most serious pandemic of this beginning of the
century, is working in collaboration with another
all-Italian company: COMPLASTIC Srl to produce
glasses and facial shields to face COVID-19. While the
masks, the result of a project made entirely by Negri
Bossi, are in thermoplastic rubber, very flexible
material and for this reason they are comfortable and
local fire recently broke out at Borealis' production ergonomic, the glasses and facial shields have helped
Alocation in Stenungsund, Sweden. The fire was equally. This project was funded by Invialia for the
contained and no people were injured during the Cura Italia decree in order to deal with the emergency
incident. The cause of the incident is yet to be
of Covid-19. The design of the two objects produced
ascertained. On 9th May at 20.45 CEST a local fire
fully reflects the characteristics required by the
occurred at the steam cracker at Borealis' production
location in Stenungsund, Sweden. The emergency plan EN166: 2004 standards, in addition, efforts have been
was immediately activated by the local crisis team and made to give maximum transparency to the glasses
no person was injured during this incident. The fire also on the side, so that the wearer's visual field is not
brigade arrived on site promptly and took steps to
diminished and with the purpose to decrease the
contain the fire. Borealis says due to the quick
mental tiredness caused by the use of the object for
mobilisation of the fire brigade, the fire was contained
today at 5.15 and the situation is now fully under many consecutive hours. In the work area for the
control. Further stating it is working closely and openly project at the Complastic Srl Company, the expected
with the authorities to investigate the root cause of the productivity at full capacity will be 2000 pieces per
incident and will take every action to prevent a similar
day for both glasses and face shield. All this has been
accident from happening again. Borealis is working
closely and openly with the authorities to investigate possible thanks to a symbiotic work, as well as with
the root cause of the incident. Borealis, the only Negri Bossi also with ADM who made the mould of the
polyethylene (PE) producer in Sweden, is located in glasses, with Moretto SpA who supplied the ancillaries
Stenungsund, where the company is the biggest
of the machine.
employer in the city's industrial cluster, employing
about 900 people. The cracker plant in Stenungsund is
one of the most flexible in Europe, using naphtha,
ethane, propane and butane as feedstock. The
cracker's main products are ethylene and propylene,
which are used to produce high-density polyethylene
(HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), and
Borstar® PE products, primarily for pipe and wire and
cable applications. The Stenungsund site also includes
an Innovation Centre focused on polymer design,
scientific services, and research and development
(R&D) for our wire & cable industry solutions.

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