Industries

Mining, minerals and metals

Sweden is Europe’s leading mining nation. We produce around 90% of European iron supply, 40% of both lead and zinc supply, 23% of gold and 20% of both silver and copper. Add to that Sweden’s world-class mining innovation power, global leadership in sustainable mining and minerals operations and leading mining education and we have an industry with high investment and growth potential.

Mining is also an industry with high impact on European and Swedish self-sufficiency and climate benefit. Metals, minerals and advanced materials are key enablers for a globally competitive, green, and digital Europe. In Sweden we have the technical know-how, the natural resources and the industrial and political ambition to be a leader in sustainable and responsible mining.

The challenges to get there include going deeper, increasing social-license-to-operate, enabling effective and transparent permit processes, finding the right competence to remote locations, moving closer to a fully-automated and carbon-free operation while staying productive and profitable with a sufficient and green energy supply.

The Swedish metal industry has long traditions alike the mining industry, today counting for SEK 46 billion in export value, exporting to 150 of the world’s 190 countries and employing over 15 000 persons. Steel has a fundamental role in the development of the modern society, and the Swedish steel industry has ambitions to lead the technical development and to drastically reduce emission to land, air and water until no other than products useful for the society leave the Swedish plants. Competition is tough in the steel industry, and to become world-leaders of fossil-free steel there is a need for high-paced innovation processes, access to fossil-free electricity and bio-based fuels and public regulations that levels the playing field for sustainable metal companies.

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  • Decision-making support for new projects, investments and business areas
  • Trained +20 business leaders in mining innovation excellence
  • ESG integration in the mining, minerals and metal industry
  • Global go-to-market strategies for +30 mining and metal innovations
  • RD&I strategies

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Space

New space is a fundamental game-change in the space sector, driven by both commercial and governmental investments and companies working independently of government and major contractors. With superior geographic conditions, space critical infrastructure in place and an extensive eco-system and knowledge hub northern Sweden is a space center to invest in.

Test and demonstration

There is no other place in the world that hosts as many areas of demo and testing as Norrbotten, and there are over 40 demo and test actors in the north in the fields of energy, materials, space, vehicles and transport, healthcare, urban planning, telecom and IT.

Industrial goods and services

Northern Sweden has a long tradition of innovative and successful export companies of industrial goods and services, primarily in the high value-added segments.

Tourism

The vision for Sweden as tourism country is to be the world’s most sustainable and attractive destination built on innovation by 2030. Northern Sweden has great potential to embody this vision with a track-record of high-end experiences, sustainable strategies and international attractiveness.

Investors and private equity

1,100 billion SEK is currently being invested in northern Sweden, the country's largest combined investment effort in new technology towards battling climate change. Northern Sweden is in general an under-invested region with numerous of globally competitive, innovative and sustainable companies raging from start-ups to mid-sized industrial companies with long ancestry.

Energy

Clean, green energy is a hallmark for northern Sweden. The region is a role model for sustainable and innovative energy and climate solutions and several small and large-scale energy initiatives are ongoing with potential to transform the industry.

Public organizations and institues

Upper Norrland, Norrbotten and Västerbotten, is Sweden’s northernmost region and has the largest land area and lowest population density in the country. Rapid economic growth, valuable natural resources and low unemployment rate identify the region but the challenges are many - a high shrinking of workforce, elderly population, increased cost structure combined with decreased tax base.