Climate-Smart Products

The demand for climate-smart products continues to increase. Ovako’s products give customers unique opportunities that provide better performance, lower production and maintenance costs and improved climate profiles.

Ovako’s premium steel is one of the cleanest on the market. Inclusions and defects in the steel are minimized during the manufacturing process, resulting in highly clean steel with better fatigue strength than conventional steel. This enables customers to develop advanced solutions for components that are lighter and stronger, and have a longer service life. This means that Ovako helps customers to create better product solutions with lower environmental impact.

Products that prove their environmental credentials.

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When using Ovako´s steel, customers are also saving CO2 emissions because the carbon footprint for a hot rolled bar is 80 % lower than the global average. For every ton purchased, two tons of CO2 emissions are saved. Read more in the Climate section and in the article : “There is a difference between steel and steel” 

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ENVIRONMENT

Carbon Neutrality

Over the years, strong investments in R&D, innovative thinking and a close collaboration with our customers have allowed us to continuously reinvent and upgrade our offering many times over. Always improving, our aim remains constant – to boost productivity, ensure safety, and secure sustainable processes that drive growth.

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ENVIRONMENT

Climate

Ovako is the steel industry leader in minimization of carbon emissions, taking the entire supply chain into account. Our carbon footprint cradle to gate for a hot rolled bar is 80 % lower than the global average.

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Efficient Processes

Ovako’s production is based on steel scrap, making Ovako the biggest scrap recycler in the Nordics. Since steel can be recycled an infinite number of times without its properties deteriorating, Ovako can manufacture steel with a lower climate impact without compromising the quality.

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Recyclability and Recycled Content

Ovako steel products can be 100 % recycled, which means it can be re-melted to produce material of the same quality an infinite amount of times.

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Use of Chemical Substances

Ovako has a proactive process for reviewing and assessing chemicals, and the main objective is that the use of chemicals in the production will not harm the environment or the health and safety of our employees and other persons as well as be in compliance with applicable European and national chemical legislation.

Ovako Sustainability Report FY2023 (PDF)