News and events

WICONA Finder receives iF Design Award 2010

2010-07-01

The "zeroseven design studios", designers of the Internet platform WICONA Finder, received the iF Communication Design Award 2010 in the category digital media. Read more

WICONA gains the „Intersolar-Award 2010“

2010-06-15

Hydro Building Systems GmbH (Ulm) with its brand WICONA was awarded together with further project partners for a novel aluminium façade concept with integrated solar heat collectors with the “Intersolar Award... Read more

A worldwide data pool for references with execution details

2010-03-12

WICONA Finder is the new internet platform with unique application benefits for architects and planners. Read more

Self-sufficient in the Swiss Alps

2010-02-02

Three thousand meters high, looking up at the Matterhorn and other tall neighbors, stands the building industry's response to the battery-operated automobile. Self-sufficient with water and energy, thanks par... Read more

Top prize to Tornado Tower in Qatar

2009-12-21

The Tornado Tower in Doha, Qatar, which features aluminium building systems from Wicona, has won a major international architectural award as Best Tall Building in the Middle East and Africa. Read more

Hydro lifts recycling capacity with new center

2009-11-13

Hydro inaugurated its new 50,000-tonne remelting facility at the part-owned Alunorf plant in Neuss, Germany. This brings Hydro's total recycling capacity in Germany to 150,000 metric tonnes of high-quality al... Read more

Project captures renovation award in Germany

2009-10-05

Nething Generalplaner, an architectural firm from Neu-Ulm, has won the German "Aluminium in Renovation Award 2009" for the LoftLiving Ackermannfabrik in Augsburg. The project was realized with Wicona-brand al... Read more

Wicona opens energy-neutral building

2009-07-08

Hydro, Europe's leading aluminium company and owner of the global systems brand Wicona, has opened an energy-neutral building in Ulm in southern Germany, which showcases its latest technologies for more energ... Read more

IFT Rosenheim, Wicona agree to innovative cooperation

2009-06-18

Wicona and the Institute of Window Technology in Germany (IFT Rosenheim) have formally agreed to cooperate on testing and the test devices that the aluminium building systems brand is using in its new test ce... Read more

Hydro executive to chair UN building initiative

2009-05-12

Hydro's Birgitte Holter has been selected to chair the United Nations Environment Program's Sustainable Buildings and Climate change Initiative. "We want to put buildings high on the post-Kyoto negotiations a... Read more