Hydro Aluminium Featured In Leading Trade Magazine, Australia’s Best Mining

Aluminium is crucial to many everyday things around us, although we may not notice. Without aluminium we cannot fly, travel by high-speed train, high-performance car, or fast ferry. We cannot get heat and light into our homes and offices without it. Therefore, Hydro Aluminium plays a more significant role in our lives than we may think.

Hydro, a global supplier of energy, has been converting aluminium into energy since 1903 when two Norwegians, entrepreneur Sam Eyde and professor and inventor Kristian Birkeland, created a method for using electricity to capture nitrogen from the atmosphere.

This was part of an industrial revolution, which ironically had stimulated global population growth but had yet to create an adequate industrial farming system. UsingNorway’s vast potential for hydroelectric power, nitrogen-based industrial fertilisers could be created relatively easily and at a reasonable cost.

Now Hydro is one of the largest integrated aluminium companies in the world. The company has grown to be a global supplier of aluminium with activities throughout the value chain, from bauxite extraction to the production of rolled and extruded aluminium products and building systems. Based inNorway, the company employs 23,000 people in more than 40 countries.

Australiais one of these, having sites at Kurri Kurri and Tomago, both inNew South Wales.