- CEO
- Marian Cilianu
- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Aluminum
- Address
- Bucharest Romania
- IPO Date
- Oct 16, 1997
- Business
- Alro S.A. is an integrated aluminium producer and processor, operating as one of the largest vertically integrated aluminium manufacturing groups in Central and Eastern Europe by production capacity. Founded in 1961, commencing operations in 1965, and headquartered in Slatina, Romania, the company operates as a key manufacturing subsidiary of Vimetco PLC, maintaining an integrated production chain that extends through alumina refining, smelting, eco-recycling, rolling, and extrusion via group entities including Alum S.A. and Vimetco Extrusion S.R.L. Alro S.A. operates primarily through two core business segments: Primary Aluminium and Processed Aluminium. The company manufactures and supplies a comprehensive portfolio of raw, semi-fabricated, and high-value-added aluminium solutions, comprising primary aluminium products such as wire rods, slabs, extrusion billets, and casting ingots; flat-rolled aluminium products such as hot-rolled plates, cold-rolled sheets, coils, strips, tread plates, embossed sheets, cladding, and alclad and brazing sheets; and extruded aluminium products such as standard and customized architectural profiles, industrial bars, rods, seamless tubes, and precision structural sections. Alro S.A. distributes its products across Romania, the wider European Union, North America, and Asia, serving demanding end markets including commercial aerospace, automotive engineering, rail and marine transportation, building and construction, electrical engineering, industrial equipment, and packaging. In recent corporate and strategic developments, Alro S.A. extended its multi-year supply agreement with Airbus to provide certified flat-rolled aluminium plates for commercial aircraft manufacturing. The company completed an 11 million USD expansion of its Eco Recycling Facility in Slatina, adding double-chamber remelting furnaces and advanced fume treatment units that increased annual aluminium scrap recycling capacity by 60,000 tonnes to substantially curb energy intensity. Furthermore, Alro S.A. has advanced its sustainability and energy efficiency program by deploying AP12LE low-energy electrolysis cell technologies, contracting on-site photovoltaic solar power installations, modernizing induction furnaces, and commissioning electric aging furnaces to replace conventional gas-fired units while accelerating its operational focus toward very high value-added aluminium products.