Portuguese extrusion business of Norwegian aluminium group Norsk Hydro — Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Portugal HAEP, S.A. (formerly Sapa Profiles Avintes) — running an extrusion plant, die shop and recycling cast-house in Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia.
Hydro Aluminium Extrusion Portugal HAEP, S.A. operates from Avintes (Pedroso, Vila Nova de Gaia), where the site — founded in 1982 as Sapa Profiles Avintes and now part of Norsk Hydro — combines an extrusion press, an in-house die shop and a recycling cast-house. With more than 130 employees, it supplies extruded aluminium profiles, treated and finished to customer specification, to Iberian industry.
Hydro Extrusion (Avintes) sits inside the Portugal ↔ Scandinavia business corridor that NorthSouth HQ tracks every day. As a Nordic company with a documented presence in Portugal, its operations are a data point in the broader story of how capital, goods, people and ideas flow between Portugal and the Nordics — a corridor that is accelerating in 2026.
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