Aluminium

Our commercial instinct drives us to ensure value creation through innovative and efficient solutions based on aluminium. Hydro’s customers include automotive, packaging and building industries. Together, we create products that make cars lighter and safer and buildings more efficient homes and work places.

Key facts

• Four business areas (effective March 30, 2009):
  Primary Metal, Metal Markets, Rolled Products and Extruded Products
• Number of employees: Approx. 19,000
• Executive Vice President of Primary Metal: Hilde Merete Aasheim
• Executive Vice President of Metal Markets: Kjetil Ebbesberg
• Executive Vice President of Rolled Products: Oliver Bell
• Executive Vice President of Extruded Products: Johnny Undeli

• More than 85 years of experience as a light metals producer
• Produces alumina in Brazil and Jamaica
• Produces primary metal in Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway and Slovakia
• Market leader in the field of metal recycling
• Continuously enhancing its position in the manufacture and supply of cast, rolled and extruded products, largely to the packaging, automotive and building industries
• Position within production and semi-fabrication in Europe, and also in the Americas, strengthened in 2002 through acquisition of the German company VAW aluminium AG and the French company Technal

• Alumina production: 2.3 million mt (metric tons)
• Production of primary aluminum: 1.7 million mt
• Remelt production: 0.5 million mt
• Total casthouse production: 2.2 million mt
• Total metal products sales, excluding ingot trading: 2.9 million mt
• Operating revenues: NOK 54,697 million
• Underlying EBIT: NOK 3,575 million

Key figures, Aluminium Products, 2008*

• Rolled Products external shipments: 965,000 mt (metric tons)
• Extrusion external shipments: 488,000 mt
• Automotive external shipments: 105,000 mt
• Operating revenues: NOK 48,180 million
• Underlying EBIT: NOK 988 million