Hydro opens 50000 tones aluminum melt unit at German plant

Dow Jones reported that Norsk Hydro ASA opened 50,000 tonne per year aluminium remelt facility at its Alunorf plant in Neuss of Germany raising the company's total German annual recycling capacity to 150,000 tonnes. The new EUR 16.6 million recycling furnace processes scrap metal into high quality aluminium Hydro said, and will help cut the company's carbon emissions. Recycling aluminium uses only 5% of the energy needed to produce primary aluminium saving around 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide compared with average European primary aluminium production. (Sourced from Dow Jones)