Sweden’s leading clean steel maker SSAB has started a partnership in fossil-free steel applications with leading innovator of mission-critical vehicles and essential equipment, including heavy duty truck bodies, fire apparatus, access equipment and other specialty trucks Oshkosh Corporation. Oshkosh Corporation will initially use the fossil-free steel for material with the aim to prototype advanced, environmentally sustainable refuse collection vehicles, and plans future research and development initiatives across multiple commercial vehicle product lines of McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing.SSAB aims to deliver fossil-free steel to the market in commercial scale during 2026, and delivered the first steel made of hydrogen-reduced iron in 2021. SSAB works with iron ore producer LKAB and energy company Vattenfall in Sweden as part of the HYBRIT initiative to develop a value chain for fossil-free iron- and steel production, replacing coking coal traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. This process virtually eliminates carbon dioxide-emissions in steel production.
Sweden’s leading clean steel maker SSAB has started a partnership in fossil-free steel applications with leading innovator of mission-critical vehicles and essential equipment, including heavy duty truck bodies, fire apparatus, access equipment and other specialty trucks Oshkosh Corporation. Oshkosh Corporation will initially use the fossil-free steel for material with the aim to prototype advanced, environmentally sustainable refuse collection vehicles, and plans future research and development initiatives across multiple commercial vehicle product lines of McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing.SSAB aims to deliver fossil-free steel to the market in commercial scale during 2026, and delivered the first steel made of hydrogen-reduced iron in 2021. SSAB works with iron ore producer LKAB and energy company Vattenfall in Sweden as part of the HYBRIT initiative to develop a value chain for fossil-free iron- and steel production, replacing coking coal traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. This process virtually eliminates carbon dioxide-emissions in steel production.
