“Alro has always put a strong emphasis on improving specific consumption, being it electricity, gas or other raw materials”, said Gheorghe Dobra, CEO of Alro. “We achieved impressive results in the energy efficiency segment resulting in noticeable cost reduction by increasing efficiency of the operations. The lower consumption per ton of aluminum also helped us to partially offset the continuous increase in energy prices.”
Following the investment programs in energy efficiency, implemented by the company over the past years, Alro reduced electricity consumption per ton of aluminum by 75% in its processed segment from 2003 to 2011, and the gas consumption also decreased by nearly 80% since 2003 to 2011 on the same segment.
Since 2005, Alro implemented an investment program of over $77 million for energy efficiency.
The continuous energy efficiency investment program allowed the company to increase its output from 240,000 tons of primary aluminum in 2005 to the peak of 288,000 tons of primary aluminum in 2008, without a significant increase in energy consumption.
Alro is held by Dutch-based group Vimetco.