Hydro Studies Feasibility Of Replacing Steel With Aluminium In Suspension Bridges
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA released a study late last week that examined the feasibility of replacing steel with...
Norsk Hydro
Hydro Halts Production At Paragominas Bauxite Mine For Pipeline Repairs
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA said yesterday it has halted the flow of bauxite ore through the pipeline out of Mineração Paragominas to the Alumina do Norte do Brasil refinery for an extended period of maintenance. The move has resulted in...
Power Restored To Paragominas And Alunorte After Tower Collapse
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA said late last week that power has been restored to Mineração Paragominas, allowing production...
Power Cut To Alunorte Alumina Refinery Prompts Sharp Reduction In Output
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA said yesterday that operations at Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery have been...
Events
Norsk Hydro Says Production Up But Sales Down In April And May Thanks To COVID-19
Noting the unique situation in which the global economy has found itself in recent months, Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA updated investors as to production volumes for the past two months, detailing a more or less increase in production but showing a steep decline in sales over the period. Per the firm, production volumes […]
Egil Hogna To Depart Norsk Hydro Upon Successor’s Appointment
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA announced yesterday the departure of executive vice president Egil Hogna at the end of the year. The Oslo native joined Hydro upon its full acquisition of Sapa Group in 2017, becoming the head of its Extruded Solutions business group. Hogna said he would remain in office until either his […]
Blaze At Albras Halts Aluminium Smelting At One Of Four Potlines
An electrical fire late last week at Norsk Hydro’s Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A.’s (Albras) in Brazil has shut down one of the plant’s four production lines, and the firm has yet to reveal a timetable for the resumption of smelting on the line. Hydro says the fire started for as-yet-undetermined reasons on Friday morning local […]
Hydro’s Fourth Quarter Results Sag Thanks To Sluggish Demand And Anemic Metals Markets
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA released results for the final quarter of 2019 on Friday. Falling demand and weak metals prices took its toll in the period, resulting in a tepid bottom line. In the prior quarter, Hydro posted an underlying EBIT of NOK560 million. Underlying EBIT for Bauxite & Alumina fell on the […]
Sales Of Low-Carbon Aluminium Expected To Double In 2020: Norsk Hydro
Norwegian aluminium smelter Norsk Hydro ASA forecasts a doubling in the sales of its low-carbon aluminium over the course of the coming year, with even greater gains beyond that. Such was the message delivered by a company executive who spoke with Reuters last week. In an interview with the news outlet, Hydro’s Extruded Solutions head […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
