Aluminium

Hydro is the third-largest integrated aluminium supplier in the world, with a presence on every continent.

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

  • Hydro’s aluminium activities comprises the two business areas Aluminium Metal and Aluminium Products
  • Aluminium Metal consists of the sectors Primary Production and Commercial Products
  • Aluminium Products consists of the sectors Rolled Products, Extrusion Eurasia, Extrusion Americas, Building Systems, Precision Tubing and Automotive Components
  • Number of employees: 21,000
  • Aluminium Metal Executive Vice President: Torstein Dale Sjøtveit
  • Aluminium Products Executive Vice President: Svein Richard Brandtzæg

Highlights
  • 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

Key figures, Aluminium Metal, 2007
  • Production of primary aluminum: 1.7 million mt (metric tons)
  • Production of remelted and recycled metal: 1.1 million mt
  • Total sale of metal products, including third party products: 3.2 million mt
  • 5,000 employees in 20 countries
  • Operating revenues: NOK 61,592 million
  • Underlying EBIT: NOK 8,041 million

Key figures, Aluminium Products, 2007

  • Rolled Products sales volumes to external market: 1.0 million mt (metric tons)
  • Extrusion sales volumes to external market: 508,000 mt
  • Automotive sales volumes to external market: 117,000 mt
  • 16,000 employees in 31 countries
  • Operating revenues: NOK 51,399 million
  • Underlying EBIT: NOK 1,353 million

For further financial information, see Hydro's Annual reporting 2007