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It was at 9 o’clock on Saturday night that a fire broke out at the so-called cookie plant at Borealis in Stenungsund. According to the rescue service, the fire broke out in the area and no one should have been injured.
“It is a smashed compressor that is burning and caught on fire in a gas pipeline,” Dan Lindqvist told the rescue service on Saturday night.
Is there a risk of something exploding?
– It burns in a gas compression plant, making it clear that there are significant risks. But if it’s poison or risk of explosion, I don’t want to speculate.
During the night, the emergency services also issued a call VMA, an important message to the public, that nearby residents should enter and close windows.
Borealis also confirmed that it was burning within its facilities.
– There was a fire in a compressor and therefore the cookie has stopped, says Maria Bildtmark, press contact at Borealis.
The fire went out during the morning.
Additional units were dispatched from Gothenburg to strengthen the rescue work, which also includes units from Stenungsund. How long the work will take is still too early to say.
“It will take many more hours,” Dan Lindqvist said shortly after midnight Sunday.
Do you have the fire under control?
– It is difficult to judge, but we have a good effect on the work we do.
Police are also on site in Stenungsund and consider it a special event. During Sunday morning, the police announce that they have nothing new to say, but that they have three units in place.
At 06:00 on Sunday morning, the emergency services had left the scene, but the effort was not over.
– We were recently told that the fire had been extinguished. The VMA is retiring and we are not at the site at the moment, says Micke Olsson at the rescue service, noting that the work of the rescue service at the site will likely continue on Sunday.
The second largest factory in Europe.
Borealis in Stenungsund is the only polyethylene and biscuit plant in Sweden. The company is also the second largest manufacturer of polyethylene and polypropylene in Europe. Customers use different plastics to make everything from packaging to vehicle parts.
The factory in Stenungsund has a capacity to produce 750,000 tons of polyethylene per year.
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