High
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High Purity
Aluminium
Hydro – our Company
Our Mission
Our Values
Our Talents
Hydro is a global aluminium company
with production, sales and trading
activities throughout the value chain,
from bauxite, alumina and energy
generation to the production of primary
aluminium and rolled products as well as
recycling. Based in Norway, the company has 13,000 employees involved in
activities in more than 50 countries on
all continents. Rooted in more than a
century of experience in renewable energy
production, technology development and
progressive partnerships, Hydro is committed to strengthening the viability of
the customers and communities we serve.
Our Mission Hydro’s mission is to create a more viable
society by developing natural resources
and products in innovative and efficient
ways.
Our Values
Courage
Respect
Cooperation
Determination
Foresight
Our Talents
Building businesses that matter.
A passion for social commerce.
Always looking for commercial solutions.
Making the most of what’s available.
High Purity Worldwide
The global need and consumption of high
purity aluminium as well as the applications are steadily increasing. Whether for
electrolytic capacitor foils, the semiconductor industry, TFT LCD applications,
high purity alumina, photovoltaic cells,
decorative uses or for electronic storage
systems, high purity aluminium is a
necessity in all high-tech products.
In order to meet the stringent
and increasing requirements
of high purity aluminium
users, Hydro set up the
High Purity Business
Unit with manufacturing facilities in Vigeland
(Norway), Grevenbroich
(Germany) and a sales
and technical support
office in Tokyo (Japan).
All three locations excel
in competence resulting
in reliability and defined
quality, a prerequisite to
meet the extremely high
demands of such users.
Our employees are highly qualified
and have the necessary experience and
know-how in metallurgy, manufacturing
technology (metal purification and casting) and application technology as well as
in trace analysis.
Our customers also profit from our flat
organizational structure. There is only
one management team defining sales
and marketing strategies and all manufacturing units use the same technical
standards. However, customers can take
full advantage of our commercial and
technical customer support via the local
sales offices.
As the most comprehensive supplier of
high purity aluminium, all our activities
have one common target: to create the
highest and sustainable quality standards
in close cooperation with our customers
and to offer them tailor-made solutions in line with their individual requirements.
Operational Excellence
There are just a few companies in the
world which have the competence and
know-how to sustainably manufacture
high purity aluminium on a top quality
level. The extreme purity of the metal can
only be reached using complex refining
technologies.
It is not only necessary to remove or
reduce the concentration of impurities
such as Silicon, Copper and Iron just to
mention a few but also to reduce the alpha
emitters such as Uranium and Thorium
to a predetermined level. We also have the
ability to alloy elements even in the ppm
range according to customers’ requirements.
Top Quality Production
We use the 3-layer electrolysis as well as
segregation (fractional crystallization)
technology to refine our aluminium. Only
by combining these two technologies
can we fulfill the requirements of the
customers and reach the desired characteristics and composition of the high purity
aluminium.
In close combination, our plants in
Norway and Germany cover the complete
range of production processes:
• 3-layer electrolysis - 4N and higher
• Segregation - 5N and higher
• 4N and 5N continuous casting - slabs and round billets
• 4N and 5N static casting - pigs, ingots, pyramids and special customer applied shapes
• Slab and round billet cutting to defined lengths
• Slab homogenization
Complex
Refining
Technologies
Innovative Produ
The basic material for our overall business – Raffinal® is produced in our 3-layer
electrolysis. The purity of this aluminium
is measured in parts per million (ppm)
and ranges from 99.99% to 99.998%.
Raffinal® is sold directly to the market,
remelt and cast into different shapes or
used as a semi-finished product in further
refining processes.
The high quality standards set by leading
electronics companies are reflected in the
specifications we need to meet in order
to supply the capacitor foil, high purity
alumina, hard disc and bright trim/decorative industries.
Raffinal® can be delivered in different
shapes – sheet ingots, billets, ingots, pigs
or even in small shapes such as pyramids.
Our products are made-to-measure depending on customer requirements
and technical parameters so
that they can be integrated
into the customer’s production process without
any problems.
ucts 99.99% (4N)
We are continually improving the production and value chain in close cooperation
with our partners and customers. This
results in an even more efficient process
chain as well as generating ideas that
contribute towards developing new and
innovative products. This gives our customers the opportunity to discover new
applications, open up new markets, create
efficiency and sustainable viability.
Ultimate Products 99.999% (5N)
For applications which demand the
absolute highest purity, we can offer our
Kryal® products. This super high purity
aluminium is measured in parts per billion (ppb) of remaining elements. Imagine,
1ppb would mean determining 1 single
second in a time frame of 31 years.
Super high purity aluminium from 5N to
6N is commonly used in the semiconductor industries in sputtering and thin film
applications. Kryal® is an essential raw
material in the production of sputtering
targets used in the processing of microprocessors and memory chips.
99.999
High Purity aluminium sputtering targets
are also used to create the aluminium
metallization coating in the flat panel
display (FPD) and liquid crystal display
(LCD) manufacturing process. This state
of the art product is also used as a starting
material in the process to produce high
purity alumina.
Kryal® is sold unalloyed in the shape of
pigs, sheet ingots, round billets, small and
large ingots and small pyramids.
Kryal® is produced in very close cooperation with our customers. All products
are tailor-made according to the special
applications and needs of our customers.
Products are always of a constant high
quality meeting the stringent standards of
the semiconductor and flat panel display
industries. This generates long term supplier-customer relationships and alliances.
Final Products and Consumer Applications
More or less all of our products, whether
4N Raffinal ® or 5N Kryal ® are finally
used for numerous and very complex
applications in the electronics industry.
High conductivity, low impurity levels,
optimal processing characteristics and
sustainable supply make 5N Kryal ® a
natural choice as starting material in
the semiconductor value chain: Sputtering target -> processed wafer -> chip ->
electronic devices. Hydro Aluminium
High Purity cooperates closely with all
the major semiconductor sputtering target
manufacturers.
Low impurity levels also make 4N
Raffinal ® a traditional basic ingredient in
electrolytic capacitor foil which is used
in the manufacturing of energy storage
capacitors.
4N Raffinal ® is also used to manufacture
foil and sheets used in decorative and
bright finish applications.
Flat panel displays are today a constant
aspect in our lives and continually in our
field of vision. The use of such displays is
standard practice in all communication,
entertainment and information devices.
Once again it is the high conductivity, low
impurity levels, optimal processing characteristics as well as flexibility in shape
and size of starting material products that
have made 5N Kryal ® a household name
in the flat panel display target industry.
Final Products and Consumer Applications
High purity alumina processed from
either 4N8 Raffinal ® or 5N Kryal ® is one
of the main raw materials used to manufacture components for separators for
Li-ion batteries and medical and cosmetic
applications. However, the major application with the highest potential is the use
of high purity alumina to manufacture
synthetic mono-crystal sapphires. These
are processed into the substrates used
in the manufacturing of Light Emitting
Diodes (LEDs). LEDs are less damaging
to the environment and have a very small
carbon footprint due to their extremely
low energy consumption and long lifetime. LEDs are now used in the majority
of electrical devices requiring a backing
light. As more and more governments ban
the use of incandescent light bulbs, it is
only a matter of time before LED light
completely replaces traditional lighting
for domestic, commercial and industrial
applications.
Precise Analysis and Certification
Our laboratories in Grevenbroich and
Vigeland are equipped with state of the
art apparatus and highly qualified staff
to ensure the highest level of quality and
dependability across the complete production process – from raw material to final
product. The instruments include Glow
Discharge Mass Spectrometers (GDMS)
which can detect trace impurities in the
parts per billion range, Optical Emission
Spectrometers (OES), Atomic Absorption
Spectrometers (AAS), Hydrogen Analysers (HMAT), equipment to measure the
hydrogen content in the liquid aluminium
during production (ALSCAN) as well as
ultrasonic detection equipment.
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Additionally to the chemical composition
analysis and dimensions inspection, every
product undergoes a stringent visual check
before leaving our facilities. A large number of our 4N Raffinal ® and 5N Kryal ®
products are actually manually handled,
inspected, cleaned and professionally
packed. The use of wooden crates authorized for export and long transport periods
ensure that products reach our customers
without any incidents and completely
unscathed.
Top class management system and door to door
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Our activities in process capability
guarantee a sustainable and reproducible
quality and innovative ideas for high
performance products. However, our
top tier performance comes from competent and motivated highly qualified
employees who are prepared to commit
themselves to our policy of supplying only
high quality products.
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Our integrated management system comprises of quality management according
to ISO 9001:2008, environmental management ISO 14001:2009, health and
safety OHSAS 18001:2007 as well
as a “proposal and idea management system”.
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These high standards are
followed precisely even until
our customers receive the
products. Stringent and exacting
inspections and controls ensure that
the products are packed and transported
with the utmost of care so that they reach
our customers without any incidents and
completely unscathed.
The Grevenbroich facility is also AEO
(Authorised Economic Operator) certified. The goal of introducing the AEO is
to continuously safeguard the complete
international supply chain from manufacturer of a product to the end-user (see flow
chart). An AEO holds a unique status and
is recognized as especially trustworthy
and reliable.
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Customer Satisfaction Survey
Customer Satisfaction Surveys are
conducted annually with continual top
marks. Feedback is used to introduce
countermeasures to customers’ claims and
suggestions.
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High
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Hydro Aluminium High Purity GmbH
Hydro Aluminium Japan KK
Aluminiumstrasse 2
41515 Grevenbroich
Germany
Shin-Otemachi Building 2F
2-2-1 Otemachi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004
Japan
Phone: +49 2181 662443
Fax: +49 2181 661101
infohighpurity@hydro.com
www.hydro.com
Phone: +81 2 5255 5101
Fax: +81 2 5255 5102
infohighpurity@hydro-al.jp
www.hydro.com
Norsk Hydro ASA
Drammensveien 260
0283 Oslo
Norway
Phone: +47 22 538100
Fax: +47 22 537930
www.hydro.com