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...
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...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has restarted operations at Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A. aluminium smelting plant in Brazil. The...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA has obtained a US$200-million sustainability-linked loan to fund a switch of the company’s fuel...
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced last week that its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil began operation of the...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ...