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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.

Aluminium saves lives

Hydro's crash-friendly aluminium poles reduce the risk of personal injuries after a collision, thus increasing road safety.

To develop the safest constructions for our roads, we have conducted crash tests on our aluminium pole products since the 1970s. The knowledge we have gained from these tests, has led to a range of safe, secure and sustainable aluminium solutions that meet all your lighting needs, while being crash-friendly and reducing the risk of personal injuries after a collision.

Crash-friendly columns make roads safer

Depending on your needs, we offer passive safe columns, such as:

Lighting columns
Traffic signal poles
Sign posts
CCTV columns

We can offer a complete range of passive safe products: high energy absorbing (HE) poles, low energy absorbing (LE) poles and non energy absorbing (NE) poles. The poles are tested according to EN 12767, and are certified according to EN 40/EN 12899.

Expertise in passive safety

Expertise and years of experience in the execution of crash tests have contributed to the creation of a Whitepaper about passive safe lighting columns and support structures. We are happy to share our knowledge with you.

Crash test movie HE columns

Crash test movie NE columns

Contact us today and discuss your project with one of our experts

Bergamo Province has installed 181 new light poles in the city of Caravaggio because passively safe aluminium poles outperform traditional steel alternatives in the aspects the province considers most important to its residents.

In the province of Overijssel, The Netherlands, aluminium passive safe poles are part of the innovative road N737. In the design and implementation of the project, attention was paid particularly to innovations and road safety.

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