Sweden’s steel industry stays confident despite Trump tariffs on imports
Bo-Erik Pers, managing director for Sweden’s steel industry trade body Jernkontoret, believes that US industry will be harder hit by
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EU gives financial push to battery factory in Northern Sweden
The European Investment Bank has approved a load request of €52,5 million from Northvolt. The demonstration plant is seen as
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Sweden to spend millions to boost media in rural areas
The parliament has agreed to start spending 677 million kronor on a new kind of media subsidy. Radio Sweden spoke
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Millions more flights from Swedish airports despite environmental toll
Sweden’s airports have seen almost three million passengers take flights in January – higher than the same month last year,
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Organic Christmas trees a growing market in Sweden
Anna Benson helps run a company started by her father that grows and sells KRAV-label trees. Although there are a
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Sweden’s new bet on underground farming
This week two underground farming projects open in Helsingborg and Stockholm, and one hope is that urban farming can create
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Sweden’s LKAB reports iron-strong earnings
Iron ore is good business and the state owned LKAB in Kiruna makes extra profit on selling highly upgraded iron
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Stockholm-headquartered Nordea Bank to cut 6,000 jobs
The Stockholm-headquartered Nordea Bank announced thousands of job cuts in their quarterly report on Thursday. The bank, known as the
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Northern Swedish city gets Europe’s largest battery factory
Northvolt today announced a partnership with the municipality of Skellefteå in northern Sweden for building Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery manufacturing.
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Sweden may start fracking in the north
Swedish mining group, LKAB, is testing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at two sites in northern Sweden. The process, where water
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House prices grow by more than 50% in Sweden’s northern counties
House prices in Umeå and Luleå have increased by more than 50% over the last five years, figures from Fastighetsbyrån,
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Sweden welcomes surge of Chinese visitors
Tourism is on the rise in Sweden’s capital, and the CEO of Visit Stockholm thinks the increased interest has partly
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What Swedes think of Volvo’s electric announcement
Swedish car giant Volvo announced on Wednesday that all of its new cars launched from 2019 would be partially or
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Volvo to go all electric starting in 2019
Volvo is to put an electric motor in every new model it produces from 2019 as it seeks to lead legacy
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Northern Sweden cities on shortlist for battery gigafactory
Europe’s largest battery factory for electric cars could be built in northern Sweden. Access to clean water, inexpensive, carbon neutral
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