Albras smelter: an aluminum operation in Brazil
Albras smelter is an aluminum smelter producing aluminum in Brazil. The sources report 448 '000 tonnes (kt) of primary aluminum ('Primary aluminium production (kmt)') for CY2025; the basis is 100% of the smelter (Hydro states that Albras is fully consolidated in terms of volumes). Measured as primary aluminum, whole-operation output for CY2025 is 448,000 tonnes: about 0.6% of world aluminum output in 2025 and about 37% of Brazil's; it is one of 28 operations on this site whose output can be stated in primary aluminum.
Who owns and operates it?
| Owner | Interest | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Hydro | 51% | 31 December 2025 |
| NAAC | — | 31 December 2025 |
How much does it produce?
| Period | Output | Basis | Where in the source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CY2025 | 448 '000 tonnes (kt) of primary aluminum ('Primary aluminium production (kmt)') | 100% of the smelter (Hydro states that Albras is fully consolidated in terms of volumes) | PDF p.302 (printed p.302), table 'Production capacity Hydro Aluminium Metal', row 'Albras', column 'Primary aluminium production (kmt)' · Norsk Hydro ASA |
How the primary-aluminum figure is worked out. Hydro prints 448 thousand tonnes of primary aluminum production for Albras in 2025. Footnote 1 to the table says production and casthouse capacity for part-owned companies represent Hydro's proportional share but that Albras and Slovalco are fully consolidated in terms of volumes, so the figure is read as the whole smelter; Hydro's total of 2,065 thousand tonnes (PDF p.37) is consistent with adding Albras at the full figure. World smelter production of primary aluminum in 2025 was 74,000,000 tonnes (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026); Brazil produced 1,200,000 tonnes.
Status: operating, as of 31 December 2025.
- Hydro's table gives Albras casthouse production of 370 thousand tonnes, which is a different measure and is not used.
How does it compare?
Other aluminum operations on this site: Alma smelter, Alouette smelter, Bécancour smelter, Boyne Island smelter, Tomago smelter, Kitimat smelter, Tiwai Point smelter, Sohar smelter, Laterrière smelter, Grande-Baie smelter, ISAL smelter, Bell Bay smelter. In Brazil: Alumar smelter (São Luís). See where aluminum comes from for the country totals, the country page for Brazil.
Sources
- Norsk Hydro ASA: Integrated Annual Report 2025 (annual report, CY2025). Opened 4 November 2026; used: PDF pp.37, 146, 155, 168, 251, 302 (printed page equals PDF page).
- U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Aluminum (government statistical summary, 2025 (world and country smelter production)). Opened 3 November 2026; used: world smelter production and capacity table.
Method and limits
- Reported, not estimated. Output is the figure the operator or owner published, in the unit it used. This site does not estimate output where none is published.
- Shares. A share divides output in primary aluminum by the USGS world or country total for 2025. Where the operator's year is a fiscal year or the unit is a concentrate or a carbonate equivalent, the share is approximate or not given.
- What is compared. The figure is tonnes of primary aluminum metal produced by the whole smelter, compared with USGS smelter production of primary aluminum. Remelted and recycled metal is not primary production.
- Whole operation or owner's share. The basis column says which. A joint venture's output is never counted twice.
- Partial list. Only operations with a published figure are listed, so the rank is among those on this site, not among every aluminum mine. Shares of a country's output mix periods and bases, so treat them as indicative.
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