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Hydro opens recycling center at Alunorf plant

Hydro, Europe's leading aluminium company, today opened a new 50,000-tonne remelting facility at the Alunorf plant in Neuss, Germany. This brings Hydr ...

November 12, 2009

Third quarter 2009: Results reflect continued weak markets, volumes rise on restocking

Hydro had an underlying loss before financial items and tax of NOK 793 million in the third quarter, compared with a loss of NOK 618 million in the pr ...

October 27, 2009

Hydro divests automotive structures activities

Norsk Hydro has today entered into an agreement to divest its automotive structures business to Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH, the automotive divisio ...

October 27, 2009

New CEO in Qatalum

Jan Arve Haugan, most recently head of Hydro’s international aluminium smelter portfolio, will become the new CEO of Qatalum in Qatar when Truls Gaute ...

October 22, 2009

Grete Faremo leaving Hydro board

Grete Faremo, who was named Minister of Defence in the Norwegian government on Tuesday, will resign from the Board of Directors of Norsk Hydro ASA wit ...

October 21, 2009

Hydro steps up aluminium recycling

Roland Scharf-Bergmann joins Hydro to lead and support its common activities in aluminium recycling, an area in which Hydro is evaluating further inve ...

October 16, 2009

Hydro raises prices for standard rolled products to general engineering

October 15, 2009

From Norway to Qatar

On Saturday, 24-year-old Fredrik Bomstad embarked on a journey from his native Norway for a six-month posting to the Qatalum project – the largest alu ...

October 11, 2009

Hydro joins aluminium research in Japan

Hydro and several of Norway’s leading research organizations have agreed to collaborate with a Japanese university and technology institute in investi ...

October 9, 2009

Qatar minister observes Qatalum progress

Qatar's deputy premier and minister of Energy and Industry, HE Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah, witnessed the progress of the Qatalum aluminium plant fi ...

October 5, 2009