# Hydro

Group: Hydro ASA  
Ownership path: Hydro (company) → [Norsk Hydro ASA](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/norsk-hydro-asa.md) (corporate group, LEI 549300N1SDN71ZZ8BO45)  
Country of seat: Norway  
Data as of: 2026-10-20, version 2.31  
Page: https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/hydro

## Plants

### Hydro Høyanger (Høyanger, Norway)

- Link: primary aluminium smelter
- Status: operating
- Metals: aluminium
- Capacity: 65 kt/yr
- Coordinates: 61.216, 6.07
- Source [B]: Company website (hydro.com) – https://www.hydro.com/
- Source [B]: Hydro – Hydro Aluminium Metal Høyanger, facts about the plant – https://www.hydro.com/en/global/about-hydro/hydro-worldwide/europe/norway/hoyanger/hydro-aluminium-as-hoyanger/
- Source [B]: Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, member profile “Hydro” – Performance Standard V3.1, certificate no. 26 Rev. 3, 01.07.2025–30.06.2028 (ASI data, CC BY 4.0 licence) – https://aluminium-stewardship.org/about-asi/members/Hydro
- Note: The smallest of the group’s Norwegian smelters, operating since 1917. Maintaining a plant of this scale is possible only with access to its own hydropower and a specialised foundry product range.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

### Hydro Husnes (Husnes, Norway)

- Link: primary aluminium smelter
- Status: operating
- Metals: aluminium
- Capacity: 195 kt/yr
- Coordinates: 59.869, 5.766
- Source [B]: Company website (hydro.com) – https://www.hydro.com/
- Source [B]: Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, member profile “Hydro” – Performance Standard V3.1, certificate no. 26 Rev. 3, 01.07.2025–30.06.2028 (ASI data, CC BY 4.0 licence) – https://aluminium-stewardship.org/about-asi/members/Hydro
- Source [B]: Hydro – Hydro Husnes, facts about the plant – https://www.hydro.com/en/global/about-hydro/hydro-worldwide/europe/norway/husnes/hydro-husnes/
- Note: The plant's second line, shut down in 2009, was restarted in 2018–2020 – the only case in Europe of lasting restoration of shut-down capacity before 2026.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

### Hydro Karmøy (Karmøy, Norway)

- Link: primary aluminium smelter
- Status: operating
- Metals: aluminium
- Capacity: 270 kt/yr
- Coordinates: 59.281, 5.286
- Source [B]: Company website (hydro.com) – https://www.hydro.com/
- Source [B]: Hydro – Karmøy Primary Production (270,000 t of primary aluminium per year) – https://www.hydro.com/en/global/about-hydro/hydro-worldwide/europe/norway/karmoy/karmoy-primary-production/
- Note: The plant where a demonstration line of electrolysis technology with energy consumption below 12.3 MWh per tonne was commissioned in 2018 – the lowest documented in the world. For European industry Karmøy is an argument that a technological advantage exists, but does not offset the difference in energy price.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

### former recycling unit and extrusion plant (Drunen, Netherlands)

- Link: remelt and wrought-ingot casthouse
- Status: closed
- Metals: aluminium
- Coordinates: 51.683, 5.133
- Source [B]: Company website (hydro.com) – https://www.hydro.com/en/global/about-hydro/hydro-worldwide/europe/netherlands/drunen/hydro-drunen/
- Source [B]: Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, member profile “Hydro” – Performance Standard V3.1, certificate no. 23 Rev. 28, 01.06.2025–31.05.2028 (ASI data, CC BY 4.0 licence) – https://aluminium-stewardship.org/about-asi/members/Hydro
- Note: In Drunen Hydro operated an extrusion plant together with a recycling unit (remelter). Both were closed as part of the decision to concentrate aluminium profile production in Europe in fewer plants, and the product range was moved to other Hydro plants; the company does not give the exact closure date on its website. Hydro Pole Products (aluminium poles) and the Global Business Services shared services centre remained operating on the site. The processing capacity of the former remelter was not announced. After this change Hydro has one remelter in the Benelux – in Ghlin, Belgium; the plants in Harderwijk and Hoogezand are extrusion plants only, without their own remelting.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

### aluminium recycling plant Torija (Torija (Guadalajara), Spain)

- Link: remelt and wrought-ingot casthouse
- Status: under construction
- Metals: aluminium
- Capacity: 120 kt/yr
- Coordinates: 40.744, -3.019
- Source [C]: Company website (hydro.com) – https://www.hydro.com
- Source [B]: Hydro – „Hydro starts construction of flagship aluminium recycling plant at Torija, Spain” (2025) – https://hydro.com/en/global/media/news/2025/hydro-starts-construction-of-flagship-aluminium-recycling-plant-at-torija-spain
- Note: The largest aluminium recycling installation currently under construction on the Iberian Peninsula. The project was announced in June 2023 with a budget of EUR 130–140 million, and in February 2024 capital expenditure was raised to EUR 180 million; construction began in March 2025, the general contractor is Sacyr, and start-up was announced for 2026. Capacity is designed at 120,000 t of low-carbon recycled aluminium a year, of which up to 70,000 t is to be post-consumer scrap processed on an advanced sorting line. The products are to have a carbon footprint below 1.9 kg CO2/kg for Hydro CIRCAL and below 4.0 kg CO2/kg for the low-carbon variant. The plant is to employ about 70 people and serve electric transport, renewable energy and building systems. The “under construction” status reflects the latest confirmed reports – no announcement of the installation entering service was found.
- Verified at source: 2026-10-08

## Products

- [Aluminium wire rod](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/products/al-wire-rod.md) – Hydro Karmøy (Karmøy)

## Scrap buyer

> A picture of the market – not a commercial recommendation.

- Hydro Høyanger (Høyanger, Norway): smelter; Metal: aluminium; Accepted grades: grades not established in the register documents
- Hydro Husnes (Husnes, Norway): smelter; Metal: aluminium; Accepted grades: grades not established in the register documents
- Hydro Karmøy (Karmøy, Norway): smelter; Metal: aluminium; Accepted grades: grades not established in the register documents
- aluminium recycling plant Torija (Torija (Guadalajara), Spain): smelter; Metal: aluminium; Accepted grades: grades not established in the register documents

[Scrap buyers in the Recycling tab](https://ai-waw.com/en/recycling.md)

## Technology suppliers

- Hertwich Engineering GmbH → [aluminium recycling plant Torija (Hydro, Torija (Guadalajara))](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/hydro#aleu-p107): billet and slab homogenising furnace – Three batch billet homogenizing furnaces with two cooling chambers, billet saw, ultrasonic testing and packing station for the new Torija recycling plant; start-up scheduled for 2026. (2024); ordered; Source [B] Hertwich Engineering press release of 27.08.2024 on the delivery of homogenising technology for Hydro in Torija (hertwich.com) – https://www.hertwich.com/news-media/news/hydro-aluminium-invests-in-hertwich-homogenization-technology-for-new-recycling-plant-in-spain

## Metal flow analyses

- [EU-27 Aluminium Flows](https://ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/eu-aluminium-flow-analysis.md)