HYBRIT®. A new revolutionary steelmaking technology.
With HYBRIT® technology, SSAB aims to be the first steel company in the world to bring fossil-free steel to the market and largely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from its own operations. Together with our partners and customers, SSAB are building a fossil-free value chain – paving the way to a greener future.
How SSAB replaces CO2 emissions with water
For thousands of years, steel has been made using coal to remove oxygen from iron ore, emitting vast amounts of CO2 in the process. But, SSAB has revolutionized the industry with HYBRIT® technology, using hydrogen instead of coal in the ore reduction process, and emitting water instead of CO2.
What is HYBRIT?
In 2016, SSAB, LKAB (Europe’s largest iron ore producer) and Vattenfall (one of Europe’s largest energy companies) joined forces to create HYBRIT – an initiative that endeavors to revolutionize steelmaking. Using HYBRIT® technology, SSAB aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. The result will be the world’s first fossil-free steelmaking technology, with virtually no carbon footprint. Our goal is to reduce Sweden’s CO2 emissions by 10% and Finland’s by 7%.
The journey towards fossil-free steel
Interview with Martin Pei
“We want to take this technology to a commercial scale, so we can be the first steel company to put fossil-free steel on the market.” Watch Martin Pei, SSAB’s CTO and originator of the initiative, to talk about the HYBRIT project.
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Episode 1: The HYBRIT initiative
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project and the journey towards Fossil-free steel.
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Episode 2: HYBRIT research
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project – from a shovel in the ground to a pilot plant.
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Episode 3: It starts in the mine
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project – We will change the future and the industry.
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Episode 4: Fossil-free electricity is the key
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project – Innovation needs to happen along the whole value chain.
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Episode 5: Addressing the root cause
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project – paving the way toward fossil-free industry future and steel products
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Episode 6: We have done it
Watch the video to learn more about the HYBRIT project – the production of world’s first fossil-free steel.
A joint venture
LKAB
LKAB is an international and high-tech mining and minerals group that mines and upgrades the unique iron ore of northern Sweden for the global steel market. Sustainability is core to our business and our ambition is to be one of the industry’s most innovative, resource-efficient and responsible companies.
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Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company, which for more than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation.
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