Karin Palmqvist has been appointed as SSAB’s site and production manager at Oxelösund. Image: SSAB
SSAB has announced a key appointment for its Oxelösund site to lead its fossil-free product transformation.
Karin Palmqvist has been appointed SSAB’s site and production manager Oxelösund. Palmqvist replaces interim manager Johnny Sjöström, who will focus entirely on his role as head of SSAB special steels.
“Karin has the competence and drive I’ve been looking for to take Oxelösund through the transformation,” Sjöström said of the new appointment.
“She’ll be leading the organisation by seeing the big picture and ensuring stable delivery capability.”
Palmqvist has extensive experience of production management in both manufacturing and process industry from large international companies. In 2014, she joined SSAB in Oxelösund to work with logistic development.
In recent years, she has been responsible for production planning and logistics and has been a member of the local management team. Earlier this year, Palmqvist was listed as one of the 40 most influential women in the iron and steel industry in Sweden.
“I’m proud to be trusted with this task. It feels like an exciting challenge to lead SSAB in Oxelösund with all the changes that we are facing,” she said about her new appointment.
“Construction of the new electric arc furnace is in full swing and in 2026 we will be ready to produce emission-free steel on a large scale – it feels incredibly motivating.”
The site is key to SSAB’s plans to make its entire Nordic production system fossil-free. Instead of coal and blast furnace-based production, Oxelösund’s steel will in the future be made in electrical arc furnaces run on fossil-free energy and with fossil-free sponge iron and recycled scrap as raw materials.
The transformation will reduce Sweden’s total CO2-emissions by around 10 per cent and Finland’s by 7 per cent.
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