Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT said on Wednesday that it had made the world’s first customer delivery of steel produced without using coal as it looks to revolutionize an industry that accounts for around eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
HYBRIT, owned by SSAB, state-owned utility Vattenfall and miner LKAB, said it would deliver the steel to truck-maker Volvo AB as a trial run before full commercial production in 2026.
“I’m happy to be minister for enterprise and energy in a country where industry is bubbling with energy for a [green] reset,” Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation Ibrahim Baylan told a
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