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Making cars lighter, safer and recyclable

We design and manufacture aluminium components for your passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The aim is to shed weight, thereby boosting fuel economy and reducing carbon emissions, and to design for disassembly.

Aluminium extrusion technologies

Hydro works with OEMs and top-tier suppliers in North America, Europe, and Asia. We serve as consulting engineers and as your manufacturing partner, utilizing aluminium extrusion technologies in structural and heat transfer applications.

The choice of materials is the first and most important factor for automotive design.

Your multi-material expert

We offer you unmatched R&D knowledge, including high-strength alloy development, with applied manufacturing skills in bending, machining, joining, surface treatment and assembly.

Lightweight cars

Components and systems include roof rails, seat tracks and seating components, finished trim, structural parts, fuel systems and engine products, safety parts, radiators, structural components, brake lines, air coolers, battery boxes and more.

A compact car is now almost as big as what a midsize car was 10 years ago.

We helped pioneer the substitution trend when the industry began replacing steel and copper with aluminium.

Contact us with your automotive project today.

Interior

Hydro offers design, development and system integration for car interior applications. Aluminium is perfect for interior applications because it looks good and it can protect the car from damage.

Exterior

We are a full-service design, development and system integration supplier for roof rails and other decorative structural trim. Our global team works with carmakers across the world.

Body in white

Excellent energy absorption is one of the properties that carmakers, and insurance companies, value in our structural aluminium applications. We can make your car safer.

Powertrain

More powertrain components are being built with aluminium extrusions. The right alloy gives you get the best combination of extrudability, machinability and mechanical properties.

Thermal management

Downsizing, turbocharging and vehicle electrification are putting the heat on your car's thermal management systems. We can deliver the right aluminium system for you.

E-mobility

Lightweighting is one of the most effective ways to improve the energy efficiency of electrical and hybrid vehicles. Lightweighting starts with aluminium.

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Aluminium components for London’s zero-emissions black cab

London Electrical Vehicle Company is using advanced lightweight aluminium components to improve the performance of its new zero-emissions taxicab and make it safer for passengers.

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Charge it with aluminium

Electric vehicles use lots of aluminium. Now the chargers that help power these cars are using aluminium, too. The Swedish company Chargestorm produces charging station solutions for electrical vehicles in collaboration with Hydro.

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The cars of 2030 will be radically different to the cars we drive today ⒸiStock

How the aluminium industry can work with carmakers to make better vehicles

By Dr Mark White, Editorial contributor

Improving freight efficiency by lightweighting heavy trucks ⒸiStock

Improving freight efficiency by lightweighting heavy trucks

By JD Rutt, Hydro

Hot metal gas forming is an innovative technology for complex aluminium solutions, one that allows freedom in design.

With hot metal gas forming, aluminium substitution in vehicle parts

By Conny Falk, Hydro