Hydro Aluminum North America Creates Dedicated Management Team for Customers in Central Midwest

May 14, 2008 - PRLog -- Hydro Aluminum’s Extrusion Americas unit has created a new regional office, the Central Region, to provide stronger customer focus to the central United States, according to Rhonda Wright, vice president and general manager of the new region.

The Central Region services customers in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. It will utilize Hydro’s manufacturing facilities in Monett and Cassville, Mo. These facilities offer remelt, extrusion, fabrication and finishing services for the building, automotive, marine, and other markets.

“The realignment has allowed us to bring a remelter to our region,” said Wright, “which opens up new business opportunities and helps complete our integrated service line for new and existing customers.

“Several new positions have been filled within the region. Rob Hall has assumed the position of vice president of sales, Bill Parker has a taken the roll of regional quality manager, and Kim Finnegan has been hired as regional controller. These additions are key to our customer focus going forward.”

About Hydro Aluminum
Hydro Aluminum North America is a division of Norsk Hydro, a Fortune 500 aluminum supplier based in Oslo, Norway, with more than 36,000 employees in more than 40 countries. Norsk Hydro is the world’s third-largest aluminum supplier. Hydro is the largest single manufacturer of primary metal and extruded aluminum products in Europe, and a leader in delivering innovative light metal solutions to the automotive and building industries worldwide.

In North America, Hydro provides aluminum solutions including supply sourcing, extrusion, finishing, and fabrication of components, as well as engineering and contract manufacturing services, for a variety of industries.

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