News | Hydro

Heavy rainfall causes Alunorte red mud spill

Following one of the worst rainfalls on record on April 27, Hydro’s part-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil experienced an overflow of one of i ...

May 7, 2009

Annual General Meeting held

The Annual General Meeting of Norsk Hydro ASA today adopted all the items as proposed on the agenda, including the proposal to pay no dividend for 200 ...

May 5, 2009

Exploring Angola hydropower and aluminium smelter opportunity

Hydro and the Government of Angola signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday to explore the feasibility of an integrated project for hydropower ...

May 5, 2009

View webcast of Hydro's annual general meeting

This year's annual general meeting in Norsk Hydro ASA is being held this Tuesday afternoon. If you cannot attend in person, you can follow a webcast o ...

May 5, 2009

GM, Chrysler announcements sting Hydro

Hydro does not rule out further reductions in its production of extruded aluminium automotive components and systems as result of the announcements th ...

May 4, 2009

Hydro shows building-integrated photovoltaics in aluminium systems

Hydro's Technal brand is bringing new product concepts to the Spanish building systems market, and moving forward in the development of building-integ ...

May 1, 2009

Economic downturn leads to first-quarter losses

Hydro had an underlying loss before financial items of NOK 493 million in the first quarter of 2009, down from an underlying EBIT of NOK 868 million i ...

April 29, 2009

Sale of shares to employees

Norsk Hydro ASA`s employees have purchased shares under a general arrangement offered to the employees of Norsk Hydro ASA each year.

April 22, 2009

Bentley chooses coated aluminium tube from Hydro for flex-fuel vehicle

The compatibility of aluminium with alternative fuels is an important topic for automotive applications. Hydro has already passed one test: It is deli ...

April 17, 2009

A century on the Oslo stock exchange

It is 100 years today since Hydro was first listed on the stock exchange. Shares in the company were first traded on the stock exchange in Kristiania, ...

April 16, 2009