2007
Stock exchange announcement
Dec 28, 2007
Hydro has upgraded the website dedicated to its aluminium precision tubing business, and is confident that the new site will capture the attention of potential and current customers. It is more product-related than before, and far more customer friendly.
Dec 28, 2007
Inger Sethov (37) has been appointed Senior Vice President in charge of Communication in Hydro. She has been acting Chief Communication Officer since August and succeeds Cecilie Ditlev-Simonsen.
Dec 20, 2007
StatoilHydro and Hydro have agreed to give StatoilHydro an additional year to find a new name and logo.
Dec 14, 2007
Chelsea FC has unveiled its new multi-million pound, world-class training facility. The building has been predominantly glazed in high-specification curtain walling from Technal, one of Hydro's aluminium building systems brands.
Dec 11, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and head of United Nation's top climate panel Rajendra Kumar Pachauri had some advice for businesses like Hydro at a reception at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo Tuesday.
Dec 7, 2007
Artist Magne Furuholmen’s aluminium sculpture at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo is a house of cards on the verge of collapse, a symbol of the fragile balance of the world we live in. By re-using aluminium, the artist wanted to address the climate debate without making too big a carbon footprint himself.
Dec 6, 2007
When the Nobel Peace Prize is handed over in Oslo on December 10, Hydro researcher Halvor Kvande will share a small slice of the glory.
Dec 5, 2007
The Source Arts Centre and Library in Southern Ireland has captured two major architectural awards. The new building incorporates a complex façade design using Hydro's Technal-brand curtain walling.
Nov 29, 2007
Hydro's profiling film for Norwegian TV – where a group of budding young engineers rebuild a railway track, sending a train into a gigantic loop – won the gold medal in what is considered to be the European championship in advertising, Epica.
Nov 29, 2007
The Årdal aluminium plant attracts the most women of all Hydro’s plants. With a female boss, and with 19 percent of employees at the plant and 36 percent of the management team women, Årdal tops Hydro’s list.
Nov 26, 2007
Two of Hydro's Wicona-brand building systems projects in Ulm have been awarded prizes for architectural development in the German community's sustainable urban renewal competition.
Nov 23, 2007
Hydro has created an additional 100 jobs in its precision tubing organization in Denmark this year. One reason is the significant increase in sales volume for microchannel aluminium tubes that customers use in air-conditioning systems.
Nov 20, 2007
Hydro is positioned for growth, and ready to invest in good projects with the necessary prerequisites – both internationally and in Norway, says President and CEO Eivind Reiten. He sees no contradiction between growth abroad and growth at home: "While some people present this as a matter of “either/or”, we want to do both."
Nov 20, 2007
Hydro and Qatalum are open for cooperation with Qatari universities and colleges. This was established during an aluminium seminar at Qatar University on Tuesday.
Nov 19, 2007
Two cultures were fused together on Monday, as the laying of the foundation stone in Qatar marked the start of construction for the giant aluminium plant in the desert in Mesaieed.
Nov 19, 2007
The four winners of Hydro’s student autumn competitions 2007 are now collecting their prizes – a stay in Qatar. There they will learn more about aluminium and participate in the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new Qatalum primary production plant.
Nov 16, 2007
Hydro is helping welcome the second generation of "VDI-Elevate!" students, a German program to train students of engineering sciences in the softer skills of management.
Nov 14, 2007
Nearly 7,000 people met with Hydro last week in Paris to better understand the latest developments in aluminium building systems. Sustainability was the theme at the Batimat 2007 exhibition.
Nov 13, 2007
Hydro has once more come out on top among Norwegian companies in the list of websites ranked by the communication agency Hallvarsson & Halvarsson.
Nov 13, 2007
Hydro is entering into a joint venture with the Australian mining company United Minerals Corporation (UMC) with the intention of recovering bauxite and producing alumina in Kimberley, Western Australia. The agreement, which was signed in Oslo on Tuesday, gives Hydro a 75 percent share in the partnership.
Nov 1, 2007
Hycast AS of Sunndalsøra has signed a letter of intent worth NOK 217 million with FATA of Italy for the supply of casting equipment for the new aluminium plant to be built in Qatar. The agreement includes design and the supply of equipment for casting extrusion ingots and foundry alloys.
Nov 1, 2007
Hydro will introduce at Batimat 2007 in Paris a new way of using photovoltaics in its aluminium building systems, which can achieve significant savings in energy consumption.
Oct 26, 2007
Hydro's third quarter results 2007 will be released at 07:30 CET on Tuesday 30 October (06:30 UK time, 02:30 AM EST).
Oct 21, 2007
Hydro has contributed NOK 1 million to this year’s televised national fund-raising campaign in Norway, named “Together for children”. By supporting this year’s fund-raising campaign, Hydro wishes to contribute to making a big and lasting difference in the lives of children affected by HIV and AIDS.
Oct 18, 2007
A worker died on Wednesday during construction work at Hydro's aluminium products plant in Hamburg, Germany.
Oct 12, 2007
As previously announced, Jan Fougner of the Oslo law firm Wiersholm is heading the investigation of the previous Libya-portfolio, which Hydro acquired from Saga Petroleum in 1999 and transferred to StatoilHydro through the merger of October 1 2007. The US law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP is assisting with US aspects of the investigation.
Oct 11, 2007
Hydro has installed a new state-of-the-art air washer at its rolled products plant in Grevenbroich, Germany. Some 32 metres high and weighing 66 tonnes, the washer is the biggest element in a EUR 6 million investment in new air-cleaning technology, and a key milestone in upgrading the plant's Series 2 production facility for ultra-thin aluminium foil.
Oct 6, 2007
When Hydro celebrated the official opening of the Ormen Lange gas field on Saturday, it was also the completion of project director Tom Røtjer’s final major oil and gas assignment. Røtjer is staying on with Hydro as the company meets the future as a pure aluminium company. Though many capable project team members have been transferred to StatoilHydro, Hydro’s well respected project organization has not been stripped of talent. On the contrary.
Oct 4, 2007
Norsk Hydro ASA today contacted the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in the light of preliminary investigations indicating that the company may have utilized a previously mentioned consultancy company, in connection with petroleum operations in Libya, more actively than initially assumed.
Oct 4, 2007
Hydro invites you to a press conference on the Libya issue.
Oct 1, 2007
Thousands of Hydro employees arrived at work in a “new” company on Monday morning. At the office premises in the Oslo area, they were greeted with coffee, hot chocolate and freshly baked buns. In the rest of the company, too, the fact that Hydro is now to focus completely on aluminium was marked in various ways.
Oct 1, 2007
StatoilHydro ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA will cooperate with respect to an external inquiry into Hydro Oil and Energy’s operations in Libya, which Hydro acquired through the takeover of Saga Petroleum in 1999 and which have now been transferred to StatoilHydro.
Sep 19, 2007
Hydro's new aluminium recycling furnace was inaugurated at the company's Neuss plant in Germany on Wednesday.
July 25, 2007
The Board of Directors of Norsk Hydro ASA has decided to end the company’s stock option scheme, in accordance with the Norwegian State's 2006 policy concerning executive compensation.