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Norsk Hydro To Add New Aluminium Scrap Recycling Capacity To Eastern Pennsylvania Plant

Norsk Hydro To Add New Aluminium Scrap Recycling Capacity To Eastern Pennsylvania Plant

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced this week yet another capex project, this one a NOK500 million (US$51 million) expansion of its aluminium recycling plant in Cressona, Pennsylvania. Per the firm, the 50 thousand metric ton per annum expansion of the...

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Events

Hydro Rein To Collaborate With Green Investment Group On Brazilian Solar/Wind Power Project

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 (GIG) to build a 586 MW combined wind and solar project called Feijão in northeastern Brazil. Per the firm, the project will power Hydro’s Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery, ultimately weaning both plants […]

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Norsk Hydro Says Aluminium Plant In Slovakia In Trouble Without Help With CO2 Tax

Norsk Hydro Says Aluminium Plant In Slovakia In Trouble Without Help With CO2 Tax

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA said yesterday that it may be forced to close its jointly-owned aluminium plant in Slovakia if the country’s government does not provide it assistance via its carbon-compensation system. The plant, which is 55.3 percent owned by Norsk Hydro and 44.7 percent owned by Penta Investments, is currently operating at […]

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Norsk Hydro Plans NOK320 MM Upgrade To Karmøy Aluminium Smelter

Norsk Hydro Plans NOK320 MM Upgrade To Karmøy Aluminium Smelter

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced plans this week to invest NOK320 million (US$32.7 million) in upgrades to its plant at Karmøy. The planned upgrades would consist of improvements tailored at reducing the plant’s overall carbon footprint. Per the firm, the upgrades to its AP18 potline would include a modernization to the plant’s power […]

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Norsk Hydro Inks Ten Year Wind Power Deal With Telenor

Norsk Hydro Inks Ten Year Wind Power Deal With Telenor

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 […]

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