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SSAB Oxelösund

SSAB AB · Oxelösund · SE · Steel · decarbonisation

Announced

SSAB Oxelösund is SSAB AB's steel project at Oxelösund, Sweden.

Why it matters

Nothing has been committed to it yet.

  • SSAB Oxelösund was announced by 20 September 2026. as of by 2026-09-20
  • Its site is at Oxelösund, Sweden. as of by 2026-09-20
  • It uses direct reduction with an electric furnace. as of by 2026-09-20
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of by 2026-09-20

Where SSAB Oxelösund is

SSAB Oxelösund is at Oxelösund, 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 — a municipality is not a point — and position is not an admission leg. The works is named by its owner and by GEM's own plant record; a position is a later task and the row does not wait on it.

Status

  1. Announcedby 2026-09-20
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  • by 2026-09-20Announced“An estimated SEK 6.2 billion is being invested in Oxelösund to replace the blast furnaces with an electric arc furnace and associated raw material handling.”source
  • by 2026-09-20AnnouncedAWARD 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 same fiche names 'SSAB to replace two blast furnaces in Oxelösund with an electric arc furnace'. 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 ONE DAY LOOSER THAN THE EVIDENCE AND THE REASON IS ORDER, not doubt: sources/funder_pass.json records the fiche as read on 19 September 2026, and this row's previous event is dated 20 September, so the bound is widened by a day rather than the append-only history reordered. A not_after may be loosened and never tightened.source

Technology and measures

  • Direct reduction with an electric furnacedemonstrationIron ore is reduced in the solid state with gas rather than smelted with coke in a blast furnace, and the resulting iron is melted in an electric furnace. It is the route Europe's integrated sites are converting to, and it is being built to run on natural gas first and hydrogen later, which is why the conversion and the fuel are two different questions with two different timetables.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources