HYBRIT: A piece of the future

The biggest challenge for the steel industry in over 1000 years. SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall started HYBRIT, an initiative to produce fossil-free steel by using electricity and hydrogen. The goal is to virtually eliminate the carbon dioxide emissions.

Learn about the HYBRIT-project and the journey towards fossil-free steel. Hear Hybrit and representatives for the owner companies on the challenges to get everything in place for the start up of the pilot plant for direct reduction, the need for a transition to a carbon dioxide free economy and on introducing fossil-free steel to the market.

Other news

24 February 2026

Decision on extended operation of HYBRIT’s pilot facility for fossil-free hydrogen storage in Luleå

HYBRIT has been granted an extension of its temporary building permit, allowing the operation of the pilot facility for fossil‑free hydrogen storage in Svartöberget in Luleå until 2031. The HYBRIT initiative was launched in 2016 by owners SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall with the aim of developing the world’s first fossil-free, ore-based iron- and steelmaking. As …

19 September 2025

HYBRIT:s Hydrogen storage won Ny Tekniks Grand Prize for Engineering 2025 in Sustainability

Marie Anheden, Vattenfall, Project Manager for the Hydrogen Storage Project and Gunilla Hyllander, General Manager at Hybrit Development AB (Photographer: Markus Fischer, Vattenfall) Fossil-free hydrogen storage in lined rock caverns ready for industralization and now the hydrogen storage project has won the Grand Prize for Engineering 2025 in Sustainability, a prestigious award awarded by the …

27 February 2025

HYBRIT: Large-scale storage of fossil-free hydrogen gas successfully proven

HYBRIT’s pilot project for hydrogen gas storage has now been completed and reported to the Swedish Energy Agency. The results show that it is technically possible to store fossil-free hydrogen gas for producing fossil-free iron and steel on an industrial scale. This can also reduce the variable operating costs of hydrogen production by up to …