HYBRIT Gallivare sponge
Hybrit Development AB · Gällivare · SE · Steel · decarbonisation
Announced
HYBRIT Gallivare sponge is Hybrit Development AB's steel project at Gällivare, Sweden.
Why it matters
Nothing has been committed to it yet.
- HYBRIT Gallivare sponge was announced by 15 September 2026. as of by 2026-09-15
- Its site is at Gällivare, Sweden. as of by 2026-09-15
- It uses hydrogen direct reduction. as of by 2026-09-15
- No committed public money is on file for it. as of by 2026-09-15
Where HYBRIT Gallivare sponge is
HYBRIT Gallivare sponge is at Gällivare, Sweden, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.
NO POSITION SOUGHT BY THIS PASS. Brief 8 forbids geocoding in a census and position is not an admission leg.
Status
- Announcedby 2026-09-15
- Funded
- FID taken
- In construction
- by 2026-09-15Announced“In the new process for sponge iron production, fossil coal is replaced with hydrogen produced using fossil-free electricity.” LKAB on its own permit application for the Gällivare sponge iron plant.source
- by 2026-09-19AnnouncedAWARD TERMINATED. The Innovation Fund's own project factsheet for grant 101051316 — 'HYBRIT demonstration: Swedish large-scale steel value chain demonstration of Hydrogen Breakthrough Iron-making Technologies' — carries TERMINATED over an award of 'EUR 143,000,000' under the 2020 Large-scale call. The fiche names 'a new, first-of-a-kind hydrogen production facility in Gällivare' and its coordinator is LUOSSAVAARA-KIIRUNAVAARA AB (LKAB). THE STATUS DOES NOT MOVE: a funder withdrawing its money is a fact about the award, and reading a cancellation out of it would be this register deciding something the owner has not said (D-B19, D-A13). What moves is rung 4, which now fails on a terminated award (D-A28). The owner look for this award is the rule 17 queue item D-A13 opened; it is not duplicated here, because no page has been read for it in this pass. THE BOUND IS THE READ ITSELF: sources/funder_pass.json records the fiche as read on 19 September 2026, which is after this row's previous event of 15 September, so the event carries the exact day the evidence supports and the history stays in order.source
Technology and measures
- Hydrogen direct reductionpilotThe reducing gas is hydrogen rather than natural gas, so what leaves the furnace is water rather than CO2. It is the only route that takes the chemistry of ironmaking to near zero, and it is separated from the conversion itself because every European unit under construction is being commissioned on natural gas and switched later.
Funding
No public capital recorded for this project.