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Process Data set: Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Ingot Europe (en) en

Key Data Set Information
Location NO
Geographical representativeness description The Hydro Average Extrusion Ingot Europe covered in this EPD has all of Europe as its main market. The main portion goes to building and construction, but it is also employed in other sectors (general engineering, solar panels, the automotive industry, transport, and consumer goods).
Reference year 2025
Name
Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Ingot Europe
Use advice for data set Cradle to gate with options. The following stages have been declared: A1-A4, C2-C4, and D. Further specified in the flow sheets shown in figure 2 and figure 3. Sub module A5 and all modules under B are not declared in this EPD as the extrusion ingot are used for many different applications where these sub modules will vary to the extent that making an average scenario is nonsensical. Module D covers the potential benefits from recycling of 465 grams of Aluminium Extrusion Ingot after end of useful life. This corresponds to the virgin aluminium content replaced by recycled primary material. Module D covers all necessary processes from C3 until the aluminium is back on the market and can be compared to the environmental performance of an average market aluminium extrusion ingot. The module is further specified in the section LCA: Scenarios and additional technical information.
Technical purpose of product or process Extrusion Ingots contain alloying materials to achieve specific end user properties. The various alloys are designated a 4 digit code following the international alloy designation system (see REGISTERED INTERNATIONAL DESIGNATION (aluminum.org)). Most of the Extrusion Ingots made by Hydro Aluminium Metal belongs to the 6000-alloy family that contain Mg and Si as main alloying elements, but also alloys belonging to the 1000, 3000 and 5000 alloy groups are produced. All these contain low levels of alloying elements (<2.5%) and are covered by this EPD. Compositions of some common 6000 alloys are shown in table 1. All products are produced according to EN 486 :2009. https://www.hydro.com/en/aluminium/products/casthouse-products/extrusion-ingots/ This EPD covers all the alloys described in the table, where the differences in environmental impacts between the various alloys are negligible (<1%) in the final products because of small variations in the amounts of alloying elements between the different groups.
Classification
Class name : Hierarchy level
  • EPDNorge: Construction / 34056599-c67c-4b90-92de-6e4f35e3f8c2 (missing translation)
General comment on data set The data quality for the foreground system is very good with specific data for the year 2021 for all inputs and outputs from the recycling plant. The data quality is good for all the main material input which is primary aluminium and pre- and post-consumer scrap from specific suppliers. Data quality assessment is based on Table E1 in Annex E of EN 15804+A2. Data for the background system are mainly from ecoinvent 3.11, “allocation, cut-off by classification” database (Wernet et al. 2016 and Ecoinvent 2024) as implemented in the software SimaPro, version 10.2.0.0 (Pré 2025). Some data for background systems have also been collected and implemented in the model as part of the project. The allocation is made in accordance with the provisions of EN 15804+A2. Infrastructure of the plant, incoming energy, water and waste production in-house is allocated equally among all products through mass allocation. Allocation of common use of material and energy between special products (low-carbon and high recycling) and the average products covered in this EPD is done on a mass basis of production volume for each facility. The potential environmental impacts from production of primary aluminium are not transferred to post-consumer recycled aluminium but is included for pre-consumer recycled aluminium. Only the recycling process and transportation of the material is allocated to the potential post-consumer scrap used for the aluminium at the casthouses producing Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Ingot in Europe. Fig. 3 shows the incoming materials to Hydro plants and main production processes relevant for modules A1-A4. All major raw materials and all the essential energy is included. Detailed production process for raw materials and both renewable and non-renewable energy flows that are included with very small amounts (<1%) are not included. When applying the cut-off criteria for this EPD, mass and energy flows have been gathered for the entire production system and all processes in the foreground system including A1 to A4. Cut-off has only been applied to module C1 where it is assumed that renewable and non renewable energy and material use is less than 1% of total use of materials, that none of these are hazardous and does not contribute to significant environmental impacts. The total exclusion of mass and energy flows is well below 5% per module and for the system in total.
Copyright Yes
Owner of data set
Quantitative reference
Reference flow(s)
Biogenic carbon content
  • Carbon content (biogenic): 0.0 kg
  • Carbon content (biogenic) - packaging: 0.0 kg
Time representativeness
Data set valid until 2030
Time representativeness description 2025-08-05 - 2030-08-05
Technological representativeness
Technology description including background system Typical technical properties for the alloys covered by this EPD are shown in table 2.

Indicators of life cycle

IndicatorDirectionUnit Production
A1-A3
 Transport
A4
 De-construction
C1
 Transport
C2
 Waste processing
C3
 Disposal
C4
 Recycling Potential
D
Input
  • 41.8
  • 0.0143
  • 0
  • 0.00219
  • 0.218
  • 0.0338
  • -19.2
Input
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Input
  • 41.8
  • 0.0143
  • 0
  • 0.00219
  • 0.218
  • 0.0338
  • -19.2
Input
  • 58.9
  • 1.11
  • 0
  • 0.133
  • 1.46
  • 0.346
  • -53.7
Input
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Input
  • 58.9
  • 1.11
  • 0
  • 0.133
  • 1.46
  • 0.346
  • -53.7
Input
  • 0.17
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Input
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Input
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Input
  • 0.306
  • 0.000123
  • 0
  • 0.0000168
  • 0.000753
  • -0.00432
  • -0.0966
Output
  • 1.68
  • 0.000944
  • 0
  • 0.000137
  • 0.0201
  • 0.00419
  • -1.08
Output
  • 4.72
  • 0.0869
  • 0
  • 0.00939
  • 1.63
  • 6.97
  • -1.29
Output
  • 0.0000518
  • 2.6E-7
  • 0
  • 3.95E-8
  • 0.00000232
  • 5.03E-7
  • -0.000133
Output
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Output
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0.915
  • 0
  • 0
Output
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0.025
  • 0
  • 0
Output
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
Output
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

IndicatorUnit Production
A1-A3
 Transport
A4
 De-construction
C1
 Transport
C2
 Waste processing
C3
 Disposal
C4
 Recycling Potential
D
Abiotic depletion potential - fossil resources (ADPF)
  • 58.9
  • 1.11
  • 0
  • 0.133
  • 1.46
  • 0.346
  • -53.7
Abiotic depletion potential - non-fossil resources (ADPE)
  • 0.00000631
  • 1.58E-7
  • 0
  • 3.2E-8
  • 0.000006
  • 4.56E-8
  • 0.0000794
Acidification potential, Accumulated Exceedance (AP)
  • 0.0312
  • 0.00028
  • 0
  • 0.00002
  • 0.000794
  • 0.0000908
  • -0.0257
Global Warming Potential - biogenic (GWP-biogenic)
  • 0.0436
  • 0.0000406
  • 0
  • 0.00000649
  • 0.00266
  • 0.00057
  • -0.0119
Global Warming Potential - fossil fuels (GWP-fossil)
  • 5.19
  • 0.0618
  • 0
  • 0.00933
  • 0.243
  • 0.0171
  • -4.39
Global Warming Potential - total (GWP-total)
  • 5.31
  • 0.0618
  • 0
  • 0.00934
  • 0.246
  • 0.0176
  • -4.48
Global Warming Potential - land use and land use change (GWP-luluc)
  • 0.0736
  • 0.0000225
  • 0
  • 0.00000314
  • 0.000109
  • 0.00000428
  • -0.08
  • 5.266
  • 0.06176
  • 0
  • 0.009334
  • 0.2433
  • 0.01703
  • -4.468
Eutrophication potential - freshwater (EP-freshwater)
  • 0.000112
  • 4.73E-7
  • 0
  • 6.95E-8
  • 0.00000729
  • 1.67E-7
  • -0.000156
Eutrophication potential - marine (EP-marine)
  • 0.00445
  • 0.0000635
  • 0
  • 0.00000471
  • 0.0000954
  • 0.0000395
  • -0.0037
Eutrophication potential - terrestrial (EP-terrestrial)
  • 0.0502
  • 0.000704
  • 0
  • 0.0000521
  • 0.00116
  • 0.000395
  • -0.0404
Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential (POCP)
  • 0.0202
  • 0.000337
  • 0
  • 0.0000318
  • 0.000375
  • 0.000134
  • -0.0158
Depletion potential of the stratospheric ozone layer (ODP)
  • 8.72E-8
  • 1.53E-9
  • 0
  • 2.04E-10
  • 2.23E-9
  • 4.39E-10
  • -5.06E-8
Water (user) deprivation potential (WDP)
  • 0.998
  • 0.00395
  • 0
  • 0.000521
  • 0.0154
  • -0.00359
  • -0.507

IndicatorUnit Production
A1-A3
 Transport
A4
 De-construction
C1
 Transport
C2
 Waste processing
C3
 Disposal
C4
 Recycling Potential
D
1This impact category deals mainly with the eventual impact of low dose ionizing radiation on human health of the nuclear fuel cycle. It does not consider effects due to possible nuclear accidents, occupational exposure nor due to radioactive waste disposal in underground facilities. Potential ionizing radiation from the soil, from radon and from some construction materials is also not measured by this indicator.
2The results of this environmental impact indicator shall be used with care as the uncertainties on these results are high or as there is limited experiences with the indicator.
Potential Human exposure efficiency relative to U235 (IRP) 1
  • 0.0734
  • 0.000391
  • 0
  • 0.000058
  • 0.0023
  • 0.000935
  • -0.177
Potential incidence of disease due to PM emissions (PM) 2
  • 3.87E-7
  • 5.46E-9
  • 0
  • 6.96E-10
  • 1.41E-8
  • 1.95E-9
  • -3.44E-7
Potential Soil quality index (SQP) 2
  • 2.24E+4
  • 0.825
  • 0
  • 0.0796
  • 1.42
  • 0.601
  • -1.61
Potential Comparative Toxic Unit for humans - non-cancer effects (HTP-nc) 2
  • 2.81E-8
  • 5.44E-10
  • 0
  • 8.3E-11
  • 5.25E-9
  • 7.58E-10
  • 2.65E-8
Potential Comparative Toxic Unit for humans - cancer effects (HTP-c) 2
  • 6.79E-9
  • 1E-11
  • 0
  • 2E-12
  • 8E-11
  • 6E-12
  • -5.62E-9
Potential Comparative Toxic Unit for ecosystems (ETP-fw) 2
  • 9.38
  • 0.107
  • 0
  • 0.0178
  • 0.958
  • 64.7
  • -0.977