Norsk Hydro aluminium

Norsk Hydro Plans US$15 MM Expansion To Aluminium Remelting Plant In NW Kentucky

Norsk Hydro Plans US$15 MM Expansion To Aluminium Remelting Plant In NW Kentucky

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced a planned US$15 million expansion of its aluminium remelting facility in Henderson, Kentucky last week. Hydro said in a press release that the capital expenditure would allow the plant to produce advanced aluminium alloys intended...

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Events

Norsk Hydro Restarts Albras Liquid Aluminium Potline After February Power Outage

Norsk Hydro Restarts Albras Liquid Aluminium Potline After February Power Outage

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has restarted operations at Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A. aluminium smelting plant in Brazil. The plant briefly closed about 75 percent of its production due to a power outage in the region in mid-February. Three of the plant’s four total potlines remained in production throughout the power outage. However, Line […]

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Norsk Hydro Makes List Of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies In 2022

Norsk Hydro Makes List Of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies In 2022

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA was included in this year’s list of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies. Hydro made the list as one of only three Scandinavian countries, joining Denmark’s shipping company Maersk and Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo. Hilde Merete Aasheim, Hydro President and CEO, credited the firm’s global workforce in achieving the ranking […]

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Hydro’s Slovalko Aluminium Smelter To Cut Capacity By 35 Thousand MTPA

Hydro’s Slovalko Aluminium Smelter To Cut Capacity By 35 Thousand MTPA

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week that it will make deeper cuts to production at its primary aluminium plant in Slovakia due to sustained high prices for electricity. Slovalko’s board of directors made the decision to reduce production to 60 percent of the plant’s nameplate capacity as it estimated that the high […]

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Norsk Hydro To Invest NOK60 MM At Årdal Aluminium Smelter

Norsk Hydro To Invest NOK60 MM At Årdal Aluminium Smelter

Norway aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week NOK60 million (US$6.6 million) in improvements to Årdal aluminium smelter’s electrolysis cells aimed at improving efficiency, safety, and profitability at the plant. The firm said in a press release that improvements at the plant would commence next spring and will include upgrades to the next-generation cell […]

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Norsk Hydro Plans NOK750 MM Upgrade To Sunndal Aluminium Smelter

Norsk Hydro Plans NOK750 MM Upgrade To Sunndal Aluminium Smelter

Norwegian aluminium firm Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week its plans to invest NOK750 million (US$82.4 million) at its Sunndal plant’s capacity for low-carbon aluminium. Hydro said the investment would come in the form of replacing and upgrading its high-voltage rectifier system, installing new service cranes, and electrifying certain operating vehicles at the plant. The […]

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