May
Stock exchange announcement
May 26, 2009
Employees who lost their jobs when Hydro closed their engine casting plant in Leeds five years ago keep track of each other – on a website dedicated to the plant.
May 15, 2009
The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has decided not to open an investigation of the so-called Libya case.
May 12, 2009
More aluminium than ever before is being used in North America-produced passenger cars and trucks. The light metal accounts for 8.6 percent of average vechicle curb weight this year, compared to 2 percent in 1970 and 5.1 percent in 1990.
May 11, 2009
Hydro's Birgitte Holter has been selected to chair the United Nations Environment Program's Sustainable Buildings and Climate change Initiative. "We want to put buildings high on the post-Kyoto negotiations agenda," she says.
May 10, 2009
“Our thoughts are first and foremost with the families,” says Ola Sæter, executive vice president responsible for the Energy business area, following the fatal cave-in Saturday at Hydro’s power plant in western Norway. Two persons lost their lives in the accident.
May 10, 2009
Two subcontractor employees were killed on Saturday in a cave-in during work on a tunnel at Hydro's hydroelectric power plant in western Norway.
May 7, 2009
Following one of the worst rainfalls on record on April 27, Hydro’s part-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil experienced an overflow of one of its rainwater drainage channels.
May 5, 2009
The Annual General Meeting of Norsk Hydro ASA today adopted all the items as proposed on the agenda, including the proposal to pay no dividend for 2008.
May 5, 2009
Hydro and the Government of Angola signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday to explore the feasibility of an integrated project for hydropower and aluminium production.
May 5, 2009
This year's annual general meeting in Norsk Hydro ASA is being held this Tuesday afternoon. If you cannot attend in person, you can follow a webcast of the proceedings on the internet.
May 4, 2009
Hydro does not rule out further reductions in its production of extruded aluminium automotive components and systems as result of the announcements that automakers General Motors and Chrysler are suspending vehicle production at most of their assembly plants in North America.
May 1, 2009
Hydro's Technal brand is bringing new product concepts to the Spanish building systems market, and moving forward in the development of building-integrated photovoltaic solutions that can conserve energy and also produce energy.
