By Andrea Svendsen, Managing Editor. There’s no question that aluminum is a sustainable material option for industries such as automotive, transportation, and building and construction, among others. The metal’s light weight, high strength, corrosion resistance, and other properties enable engineers and designers to optimize their products, enabling them to develop sustainable, energy efficient designs. In […]
Hydro plans to begin testing green hydrogen in a three-year industrial-scale pilot at its new recycling unit recently opened at Hydro Høyanger, Norway. Green hydrogen has the potential to replace fossil energy in the recycling of aluminum, enabling zero-carbon aluminum products. “Hydro is pursuing multiple paths to decarbonize our operations,” said Hanne Simensen, executive vice […]
Irizar e-mobility, a Spanish company that produces electromobility solutions for cities, will be the first company to use Hydro Extrusions’ recycled aluminum profiles produced from green hydrogen in their products. The aluminum profiles will be used in the bodywork of their electric vehicles, such as the “ie tram,” a zero-emission bus with the appearance of […]
By Andrea Svendsen, Managing Editor. Hydro successfully produced a batch of aluminum billet using green hydrogen as an energy source. Performed at the company’s extrusion plant in Navarra, Spain, the trial was conducted in collaboration with Hydro Havrand, Hydro’s green hydrogen company, and Fives, an industrial engineering group with expertise in hydrogen burner technology. According […]
As consumers continue to demand more sustainable products, manufacturing companies at every level of the process chain are working to lower their carbon footprint and reduce their environmental impact. In the secondary aluminum industry, one potential method for reducing the carbon impact of the melting process is to utilize green hydrogen (produced by using renewable […]
