Aluminum made with Hydro CIRCAL® is certified by third-party auditors DNV and has a market-leading CO2 footprint of just 2.3 kg CO2e/kg aluminum or less.

The scrap in Hydro CIRCAL® typically consists of aluminum that has previously lived a “life” as a car part, window, electrical cable, or other consumer good and is then collected in the U.S. by certified scrap dealers. This  post-consumer scrap is brought back to life at Hydro’s recycling plant in Henderson, KY, where it is mixed with additional aluminum and alloying elements to make extrusion billets.

The aluminum structural members in Weatherbreak were produced at Hydro’s aluminum extrusion facility in Elkhart, Indiana, utilizing Hydro CIRCAL® aluminum billets.  The unique aspects of the extrusion process allow for the exacting shape and dimensions required in this structure.

Partnership with The Catholic University of America

Hydro has provided the aluminum structural components utilized by the student-led Catholic University team reconstructing an iconic Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History during the month of July 2023.

By offering full transparency of our product’s journey throughout the value chain and calculating the total emission footprint and end-of-life scrap content the Smithsonian institution and Catholic University have contributed to increased circularity, resource efficiency and lower emissions.