Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) has announced plans to temporarily shut down production from May 15 due to the unprecedented fall in global alumi ...

March 18, 2009

A new life-cycle assessment study on beverage cans in Europe shows improved results for aluminium cans – which will boost efforts to increase recyclin ...

March 16, 2009

On Friday, March 13, at 09.01 am, the power in the Søderberg potroom at the aluminium plant at Karmøy in Norway was switched off. This marks the end o ...

March 13, 2009

Yet another milestone was achieved on the Qatalum project recently, when the very first electrolytic cell was placed in position. Four cells are now i ...

March 13, 2009

Hydro is injecting NOK 92 million to a capital increase in the solar energy company NorSun. All the biggest shareholders are contributing a total of N ...

March 10, 2009

Hydro’s head of Energy, Jørgen C. Arentz Rostrup, will take over as the company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective May 1. Rostrup, 43, will continue ...

March 10, 2009

On March 6, 2009, Norsk Hydro ASA signed a EUR 750,000,000 syndicated 3-year revolving credit facility. The facility is for general corporate purposes ...

March 6, 2009

As previously announced, Norsk Hydro ASA has initiated a review of staff and support functions with an ambition to be among the best of comparable com ...

March 5, 2009

Gustavsberg recently launched a new generation of bathroom taps where the choice of aluminium extrusions caused serious doubts among the 'know-it-alls ...

March 3, 2009

Commissioned by Safegate, one of the world’s leading suppliers of airport equipment, Profillack in Örnsköldsvik manufactures airport signs with a fram ...

March 2, 2009