Facts and key ratios

Production plants

• Three integrated ore-based iron and steel plants.
• Eleven scrap-based steel plants.
• About fifteen finishing plants.

Production

• Crude steel production in 2024: 4.0 million tonnes (world production: 1.885 million tonnes).
• Special steels represent a high share of total production. Alloy steels comprised 56% of the production in 2024.
• Very niche-oriented production with ever greater focus on steel that delivers environmental benefits from a life-cycle perspective.
• One third of the crude steel production is scrap-based and two thirds are ore-based production (learn more: Processes).
• Production of approx. 2 million tonnes of residues (2018), of which 78% is used internally or sold and 22% goes to landfill.
  
  See also: Production

Foreign trade

• Most of the manufactured steel products are exported.
• Export value in 2024: SEK 60.9 billion.
• Export volume in 2024: 2.8 million tonnes.
• In 2024, steel exports went to 157 countries. Just under 67% of the total went to the EU and Great Britain.
• Major share of the feedstock input is Swedish, e.g. iron ore, scrap, electricity and limestone.
• Coke and alloying elements as well as oil and natural gas are imported.
  
  See also: Foreign trade

Energy 

• Energy consumption in 2023: 18,9 TWh.
• Electricity consumption in 2021: 3,5 TWh.
• Sale of about 2 TWh of energy annually in the form of process gases, electricity and district heating.
  
  See also: Energy use

Emissions 

• 1.9 ktonnes of nitrogen oxides (2019)
• 1.2 ktonnes of sulphur oxides (2019)
• 5.7 Mtonnes of carbon dioxide (2022, according to statistics from the EU emissions trading system)
  
  See also: Steel plant emissions

Employment 

• Employment in 2023: 16,600 persons.
• Indirect employment in 2023: 28,000 persons*.

*) Estimated with an employment multiplier of 2.69 based on an input/output-analysis.