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Norsk Hydro Begins Construction Of New Aluminium Recycling Plant In SW Michigan

Norsk Hydro Begins Construction Of New Aluminium Recycling Plant In SW Michigan

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...

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Albras Power Failure Halts One Quarter Of Albras Aluminium Smelting Capacity

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA says a power failure in Brazil over the weekend resulted in the shutdown of one of the four smelting lines at Albras aluminium smelter. In a statement, Hydro said the internal power distribution failure occurred Saturday morning local time. As a result, the 110 thousand metric tons per annum […]

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 […]

Norsk Hydro Inks 1,300 GWh Renewable Power Contract With Hafslund Eco

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA signed a new six-year long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with renewable power provider Hafslund Eco Vannkraft AS last week. The PPA will have Hafslund Eco provide Hydro with 1,300 GWh over the life of the contract. Financial terms of the agreement were not made public by either party. This […]

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 […]

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 […]