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Aluminium

When you choose aluminium from Hydro, it's strong, light, durable and climate efficient, making you part of a smarter and more sustainable future. Our climate strategy is to cut our CO2 emissions 30% by 2030. Our aluminium can help you meet your goals, too.

Energy

With more than a century of experience in renewable energy, Hydro is one of the top three operators of power production in Norway, and a significant market player in the Nordics and Brazil. We are responsible for developing new business opportunities for Hydro within both renewable energy, hydrogen and batteries, and we provide support to the rest of Hydro’s business areas on contracts, security of supply and energy framework conditions.

Sustainability

Our purpose is to create a more viable society by developing natural resources into products and solutions in innovative and efficient ways. Our ambition is lifting profitability and driving sustainability, creating value for all stakeholders. To tackle our global challenges, the world needs to produce and consume in new ways. We want to contribute to creating a fair society and circular economy by producing responsibly, delivering circular solutions, making net-zero aluminium by 2050 or earlier, and producing and using more renewable energy.

Careers

A world of opportunities for students, graduates and professionals. A learning culture of challenges, responsibilities and variety. A friendly work environment of knowledgeable professionals. We depend on different perspectives to build industries that matter – for a more sustainable future. With us, you’re part of a bigger story. A story shaped by you.

Investors

We are a leading aluminium and renewable energy company that has created business opportunities for more than a century by developing products, solutions and industries that address global needs and demands. We supply low-carbon aluminium to customers worldwide and offer renewable energy solutions to industries that want to power manufacturing in a greener way.

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About Hydro

Hydro is a leading industrial company committed to a sustainable future. Our purpose is to create more viable societies by developing natural resources into products and solutions in innovative and efficient ways.

Electrical substations

Aluminum is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity, its density being approximately three times lower than that of copper. These properties allow satisfying the needs of a sector as demanding as the electrical one.

Julio Valgañón, Valgañón Metal Cable manager — Julio Valgañón, manager of Valgañón Metal Cable

Ask us today about your aluminum project

Valgañón Metal Cable, a leading company in the marketing and distribution of materials used in electrical substations, relies on the solutions provided by Hydro since 1994. More than 25 years of experience materialized in more than 5,500 projects, both national and international.

They especially stand out:

Substations 500 kV Colcabamba, Poroma, Yarabamba and Montalvo 500 (Peru).
400 kV D'Ain Fateh Substation (Algerie).
Substations 400 kV Godelleta and Torremendo (Spain).

Hydro Extrusions in Spain makes all its productive and logistical resources available to meet the specific requirements of this market. In the words of Julio Valgañón, Managing Director of VMC:

"The close collaboration that we have developed over the years in our supplier-client relationship with Hydro adds value to our processes"

For Hydro in Iberia, Valgañón Metalcable SL is the exclusive official distributor of extruded aluminum tubes used in electrical substations.

Electrical substations

"The close collaboration that we have developed over the years in our supplier-client relationship with Hydro adds value to our processes"

Electronics

Hydro Extrusion in Spain

Extruded profiles

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