Our purpose and values

Our purpose as a part of HYDRO is to create a more viable society by developing natural resources into products and solutions in innovative and efficient ways. Explore our values below

  • Care
    Care

    We act with respect for people and the environment and place safety at the heart of our operations.

     

     

    Caring for people and the environment.

    Innovative and sustainable processing of natural resources defines the essence of Norsk Hydro. It all started in 1905 with the first successful use of hydropower to extract nitrogen from the air. Manufactured mineral fertilizer would ensure enough food for a growing population. Using energy, we later refined bauxite into advanced and sustainable aluminum solutions. Hydro’s history has always been about producing useful products that the world needs, about human creativity and enterprise in harnessing what nature has to offer, about the ability to see possibilities and realize limitations – a vital force created by people who respect each other and the world around them.

    This requires care.

     

    source: https://www.hydro.com/us/global/about-hydro/the-hydro-way/care/

  • Courage
    Courage

    We break new ground and take measured risks with agility, accountability and foresight.

     

     

    This take courage.

    Spectacular technology, innovative development of natural resources in a global market, and the building of unique industrial communities and societies: that is how it is today, and that is how it was in the beginning. It has earned Hydro’s first two production sites in Telemark a place on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Just as in our first 100 years, when our technology secured enough food for the world and laid the foundation for a whole new industry, so today we are developing more sustainable aluminum solutions to deal with one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. We are applying the world’s most energy-efficient production technology and regularly launching new, more climate-friendly products based on recycling and reuse – developed at our research centers and production facilities worldwide.

    This takes courage.

     

    source: https://www.hydro.com/us/global/about-hydro/the-hydro-way/courage/

  • Collaboration
    Collaboration

    We work as partners internally and externally to unite competencies and create win-win opportunities.

     

     

    Collaboration – crucial from the start.

    “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something,” the saying goes. This applies to our company and our relationships with our customers and partners. It also applies to our relationship with the societies to which we belong, locally and globally. No one is perfect. No one knows everything. That is why having skilled and loyal colleagues who work together is so important. That is why having good partners and transparent dialogue with customers is vital to succeed. And that is why mutual respect and openness are prerequisites for everything we do, in all corners of the world.

    This requires collaboration.

     

    source: https://www.hydro.com/us/global/about-hydro/the-hydro-way/collaboration/