2006 - 2007
Next, Hydro merged its petroleum businesses with those of Statoil, creating StatoilHydro. What remained was the new Hydro: a global, integrated aluminium and hydroelectric power company.
Just aluminium, 105 years on
On October 1 2007, Hydro became a focused aluminium company. 105 years after the adventure began, at the Rjukan waterfall in the mountains of Telemark in southern Norway, the company had finally become what its founder, Sam Eyde, originally envisaged.
