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Innovation and R&D

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Aluminium

When you choose aluminium from Hydro, it's strong, light, durable and climate efficient, making you part of a smarter and more sustainable future. Our climate strategy is to cut our CO2 emissions 30% by 2030. Our aluminium can help you meet your goals, too.

Energy

With more than a century of experience in renewable energy, Hydro is one of the top three operators of power production in Norway, and a significant market player in the Nordics and Brazil. We are responsible for developing new business opportunities for Hydro within both renewable energy, hydrogen and batteries, and we provide support to the rest of Hydro’s business areas on contracts, security of supply and energy framework conditions.

Sustainability

Our purpose is to create a more viable society by developing natural resources into products and solutions in innovative and efficient ways. Our ambition is lifting profitability and driving sustainability, creating value for all stakeholders. To tackle our global challenges, the world needs to produce and consume in new ways. We want to contribute to creating a fair society and circular economy by producing responsibly, delivering circular solutions, making net-zero aluminium by 2050 or earlier, and producing and using more renewable energy.

Careers

At Hydro, we put our people at the center of everything we do. By supporting our employees’ growth professionally and personally, we are fostering a community of colleagues who are united in the shared purpose of solving our industries’ most pressing challenges.

Investors

We are a leading aluminium and renewable energy company that has created business opportunities for more than a century by developing products, solutions and industries that address global needs and demands. We supply low-carbon aluminium to customers worldwide and offer renewable energy solutions to industries that want to power manufacturing in a greener way.

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About Hydro

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 design expertise

Whether you need to transform an existing steel part into high-quality aluminium, or start fresh from the drawing board, we have the knowledge and design expertise to create cost-reducing, corrosion-resistant, sustainable, lightweight products.

As a customer, you have access to the knowledge of our team of metallurgists, chemists, metallographers, physicists, designers, mechanical engineers and technicians – all specialists in aluminium.

Our team of application engineers will work with you to identify the best solution available.

Research and development

Our innovation and technology initiatives stimulate and take an active part in business development and technical development of products and processes throughout all of Hydro, covering:

Improvement of existing products and processes
Technical service and troubleshooting
Enabling technologies, innovation and intellectual property

Prototyping

We offer you a one-stop shop for the prototyping of aluminium products. By combining our expert engineering and design guidance with prototyping capabilities, we can shorten your development cycle and improve your product design process with an aluminium prototype.

R&D analysis

We also offer research and analysis capabilities. We apply advanced computer simulations to discover the best design option, which reduces costs and lead times in the development process.

Contact us today to begin discussing your business project

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