HYBRIT—SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall’s project for creating fossil-free steel—has been granted SEK 528 million in financial backing by the Swedish Energy Agency. HYBRIT has the potential to reduce Sweden’s total carbon dioxide emissions by ten percent, and Finland’s emissions by seven percent. For Sweden’s part, the reduction has been described as crucial to the country’s efforts to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement.

aIGO project pilots urban shared autonomous mobility in all weather conditions. Project started in September 2017, when also co-operation with SSAB started, and the bus will be launched end of year 2018. Sensible 4 is aiming in setting Finland as hotbed of shared autonomous mobility by working together with Public-Private-People (PPP) partners. aIGO project is funded by AIKO funding with Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council and Growth Corridor Finland.

Repair work has begun following the transformer fire that occurred at SSAB Europe’s Hämeenlinna mill on Tuesday, June 12. The total cost of repair and lost deliveries will have an estimated result impact of SEK 100-120 million on SSAB Europe, whereof approximately SEK 50 million in the second quarter and the remaining amount in the third quarter.