Reuters reported that Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro would not restart currently idled capacity at its Sunndal primary aluminum smelter in Norway until market conditions pick up.

As per report, the company's Sunndal 3 production line was idled in early 2009 in response to weak demand.

A spokesman said that we announced in April the restart of the first 15,000 tonne per year of the curtailed 100,000 line at Sunndal of Norway. The ambition was to restart the full line by the end of 2011, on condition of satisfactory market conditions.

He said that based on the current situation and market visibility we have not taken the decision to continue the restart of the remaining 85,000 tonne per year capacity. We will review this when market conditions improve.

(Sourced from Reuters)