Hydro opens new aluminium recycling plant in Hungary
London, September 11, 2024, (Oilandgaspress) ––: Hydro’s new aluminium recycling plant in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, has an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes, mainly serving the automotive market.
The recycling plant will initially process 15,000 tonnes of post-consumer scrap annually, increasing over the years to come in line with the growing customer demand for recycled, post-consumer aluminium.
“Our most ambitious customers in key industries like the automotive industry are pushing demand for low-carbon and recycled aluminium upwards. To serve this growing market and strengthen Hydro’s position as the leading provider of low-carbon and recycled aluminium solutions in Europe, we are set to grow our capacity for aluminium recycling towards 2030. This plant will strengthen Hydro’s capacity to provide our customers with advanced components in recycled aluminium,” says President and CEO Eivind Kallevik.
The new aluminium recycling plant is built next to Hydro’s aluminium extrusion plant in Szekesfehervar, which is the most advanced of its kind in Europe, with six presses and extensive fabrication and surface treatment capabilities.
The extrusion plant mainly serves customers in the automotive industry with advanced aluminium components. The production scrap, that is a natural part of the extrusion and fabrication processes, will onwards go right back into the melting furnace in the new recycling plant. A few days later, the re-created aluminium is extruded into new car parts.The Szekesfehervar extrusion plant is also building a new extrusion press for automotive products which is planned to start production in 2025.
Aluminium can be recycled over and over again, without losing its inherent properties.
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