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Norsk Hydro benefited from higher prices for aluminium and alumina, which is used to make aluminium, saw gains from currency effects and reported higher margins in the division that makes products by extrusion, it said, although high raw material and fixed costs offset some of those gains.
«If there is rationing or power cuts, and depending on whether it is a broad, European-wide impact or whether it is a country-by-country impact, Hydro would seek to produce at fewer sites or use other alternative fuels,» he said.
Andrew Tully, technical director at Canada Life, said: ‘HMRC is witnessing an incredible spike in income from IHT delivering £1.8billion to the taxman already this financial year, £300million higher than the same period last year.
OSLO, July 22 (Reuters) — Aluminium maker Norsk Hydro proposed an extra dividend and offered share buybacks as it reported quarterly profit that met expectations, articles sending its shares higher on Friday despite warning of uncertainty amid threats of gas rationing in Europe.
Hydro will offer an extra cash dividend of 3 billion crowns, or 1.45 crown per share on top of the paid dividend of 5.40 crowns per share in 2021, and share buybacks of 2 billion crowns over the next 12 months, pending approval from shareholders.
‘There has also been a higher volume of wealth transfers due to Covid — partly due to more deaths in the elderly population, but also as some people make outright gifts to help family during this difficult period.
At some sites, liquefied petroleum gas could replace natural gas but «for most of our operations, there is no contingency alternative if gas is cut,» he said, adding the impact would depend on how clients ranging from automakers to construction firms responded.
It also added that recent rises in asset values and the Government’s decision last year to maintain the IHT tax free thresholds at 2020 to 2021 levels up to and including 2025 to 2026 — which will mean people are increasingly likely to be caught.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose to 11.6 billion crowns ($1.16 billion) in April-June from 6.6 billion crowns a year earlier.
A company-provided analyst poll forecast 11.6 billion on average.
Premier Peter Malinauskas said while the state government was willing to explore extra safety measures for the freeway, it was first important to determine the cause of the crash, be that driver error or a mechanical failure.
«There is no point in us producing if there are no automotive producers that want to buy parts,» he said, adding that Norsk Hydro would have to adjust capacity after assessing any such changes in customer demand.
The crash prompted calls from the Transport Workers Union for greater safety measures including an extra arrester bed near the end of the freeway, a cut in the speed limit for heavy vehicles from 60 to 40km/h and compulsory training for drivers on navigating steep descents.
The base of the freeway — where hills commuters, trucks and people driving to Adelaide from the eastern states converge — has been the scene of a number of serious crashes and near misses in recent years.