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Help program for employees wins European award

Hydro's extrusion plant in Austria has won one of the top prizes in the European Aluminium Association's safety solution competition.

December 18, 2009

Hydro continues cooperation with Amnesty International Norway

Hydro has had a cooperation agreement with Amnesty International Norway since 2002. Amnesty representatives recently met with President and CEO Svein ...

December 11, 2009

Hydro divests rolling mill in Spain

Hydro has entered into an agreement to divest its aluminium rolling mill in Irurtzun, Spain, to the German industrial holding company Bavaria Industri ...

December 2, 2009

Capital Markets Day 2009: Hydro steps up upstream repositioning efforts

Hydro is intensifying efforts to improve its competitive position by launching new cost-reduction measures, following a year of demanding markets and ...

December 2, 2009

Hydro sells Cedar Tools to WEFA Group

Hydro has concluded the sale of the assets and technology of its aluminium extrusion diemaking unit in Michigan to WEFA Group, which will take over th ...

November 30, 2009

WICONA lands Spiegel project in Hamburg

Hydro's WICONA brand is going to deliver energy-saving aluminium building systems for Spiegel Group's new headquarters in Hamburg. This is a prestigio ...

November 17, 2009

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