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.
Highlights
- More than 85 years of experience as a light metals producer
- Bauxite mining in Brazil
- Alumina refining in Brazil
- Primary metal production in Australia, Qatar, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Norway and Slovakia
- Market leader in aluminium recycling
- Continuously enhancing its position in the manufacture and supply of casted, 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, Primary Metal, 2010
- Alumina production: 2.1 million mt (metric tons)
- Production of primary aluminum: 1.4 million mt
- Total casthouse production: 1.8 million mt
- Total revenue: NOK 25,486 million
- Underlying EBIT: NOK (2,556) million
Key figures, Metal Markets, 2010
- Remelt production: 0.5 million mt
- Total metal products sales, excluding ingot trading: 2.4 million mt
- Total revenue: NOK 34,197 million
- Underlying EBIT: NOK (83) million
Key figures, Rolled Products, 2010
- External shipments: 0.8 million mt
- Total revenue: NOK 18,411 million
- Underlying EBIT: NOK 26 million
Key figures, Extruded Products, 2010
- Extrusion external shipments: 0.4 million mt
- Automotive external shipments: 87,000 mt
- Total revenue: NOK 20,065 million
- Underlying EBIT: NOK (67) million
For further financial information, see Hydro's Annual reporting 2010
