Hydro Rein To Collaborate With Green Investment Group On Brazilian Solar/Wind Power Project
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein has signed an agreement with Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA is facing civil charges in court that it allowed the world’s biggest aluminium smelter contaminate a nearby river in Brazil, harming thousands of indigenous families in the area. Plaintiffs in the Dutch suit say the pollution...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Rein has signed an agreement with Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA said yesterday that it may be forced to close its jointly-owned aluminium plant in...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced plans this week to invest NOK320 million (US$32.7 million) in upgrades to its...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA’s subsidiary Hydro Energi AS signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Norwegian telecommunications firm Telenor Infra AS this week. The agreement will have Telenor selling the Hydro subsidiary 330 GWh per year of wind energy produced at Sweden’s Stor-Skälsjön wind park, which is a joint project involving another […]
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA broke ground last week on a new US$150 million aluminium recycling plant in Cassopolis, Michigan. According to Hydro, the plant’s nameplate capacity will be 120 thousand metric tons of low-carbon aluminium extrusions per annum. Production is slated to begin next year, and the plant will create about 70 jobs […]
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 […]
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has obtained a US$200-million sustainability-linked loan to fund a switch of the company’s fuel from heavy oil to natural gas, a more sustainable source that will help it achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets. The project will see the Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil undergo the switch, which is expected […]
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week that its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil began operation of the plant’s first electric boiler. Hydro says the new boiler is expected to cut the plant’s carbon emissions by 100 thousand metric tons per annum. The new electric boiler at Alumina do Norte de Brasil S.A. […]
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...