Swedish group Stegra has embarked on an ambitious journey: building the first greenfield steel mill in Europe in the past 50 years in Boden, Sweden. The project has been delayed several times but is now nearing first production, slated for 2027. The site contains three plants producing green hydrogen, green iron and green steel, targeting a capacity of 5 million tonnes of green steel annually.
In this episode of The Green Steel Challenge, co-hosts Astrid Korf and James Moss check in with Niklas Wass, CEO at Stegra Boden, to see how the project is going, two years after their conversation with Maria Persson Gulda, CTO of Stegra at the time.
The conversation explores the challenges and lessons learned along the way, and what Stegra’s experience tells us about the future of green steelmaking. Spoiler: for Niklas, the key ingredients are electricity, access to raw materials, and logistic routes.
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