DUBAI  - Borouge, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Austria's Borealis, has started construction of a fifth polypropylene unit in the United Arab Emirates, the company said on Tuesday.

The new unit at the Borouge 3 plant will have a capacity of 480,000 tonnes a year and boost Borouge's production capacity by more than 255 percent, it said.

It is expected to go online in the third quarter of 2021, the company said.

(Reporting by Hadeel Al Sayegh; editing by Jason Neely)

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