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Topics: Environmental technology, Recycling

  • Stena Metall divests Stena Components

    As part of a strategic review of the Group, the decision has been taken to divest Stena Components. The buyer is Lazarus Industriförvaltning AB.

    Stena Components business
  • Change of ownership in Stena Metall AB

    Dan Sten Olsson has transferred his entire shareholdings in Stena Metall AB, the parent company in the Stena Metall Group, to his children Selma Olsson Åkefeldt and William Olsson.

    Dan Sten Olsson - the son of the founder of the Stena Sphere, and Honorary Chairman of the Stena Metall AB board of directors
  • Life HaloSep inaugurated - a unique facility for fly ash recycling

    On November 17, Stena Metall, together with the Danish company Vestforbrænding, inaugurated the world's first full-scale HaloSep plant. The plant converts fly ash from incineration processes into useful resources such as metals and salt, as well as purified fly ash. The ash is today classified as a hazardous waste that may only be disposed of in special landfills.

    The interior of the HaloSep facility where hazardous waste from flue gas cleaning is turned into valuable resources.
  • Quayside powerbanks – The next step in the electrification of shipping

    Stena is now taking the next step in shipping electrification: the development of a new type of energy storage, similar to very large powerbanks, which will be essential for the quick charging of electric ferries in the future. The project is part-financed by the EU and will, among other things, investigate how used batteries from the transport sector can be reused for energy storage in ports.

    A battery-powered, electric Stena ferry.
  • Stena gives Volvo bus batteries a second life

    The commercial service lives of bus batteries are significantly extended and natural resources are conserved. That is the result of a new cooperation between Volvo Buses and Stena Recycling subsidiary Batteryloop. After the batteries are removed from Volvo's buses, they are reused as energy storage units for a number of years, for instance in buildings and charging stations.

    An electric bus has stopped at a bus stop in an urban environment. Two women are about to go onboard the bus. A woman with a
  • The premiere of the Circular Initiative gathered leading industrial companies

    To create circular material flows, there is a need for cooperation, concrete plans and bold goals. Stena Recycling's new sustainability event Circular Initiative gathered over 200 people, when representatives from leading industrial companies met to discuss solutions for a sustainable future.

    Märtha Rehnberg, co-founder of Dare Disrupt & policy advisor - EU commission, speaking at Stena Recycling's event Circular In
  • Industrial giants in new initiative for circular flows

    Swedish companies can do more to prevent waste and make better use of the waste that is produced in various types of industry. With technical development and new broader collaborations, resources can be saved and multiple circular flows can be created. This is a necessity if there are to be enough resources for tomorrow.

    The back of one male and one female Stena Metall employee in hi-vis protective gear and helmet.
  • The Stena Nordic Recycling Center receives award

    The Stena Nordic Recycling Center took the Waste Processor of the Year award (Årets avfallsbehandlare) at the Recycling Gala, held at Berns in Stockholm on January 25th.

    Stena Nordic Recycling Center 2018
  • Stena Recycling AB is expanding in Sweden

    Stena acquired IL Recycling AB in 2016 and, after a transition process, the company will become part of Stena Recycling AB on March 1. This strengthens the company's position as a provider of total recycling services in Sweden.

    One male Stena Recycling employee in hi-vis protective gear is sitting in the cab of an operating machine, talking to another
  • The new facility is now officially open

    There was no mistaking the party atmosphere at the inauguration of the Stena Nordic Recycling Center, the Stena Metall Group's largest industrial investment, on October 26. The event was a great success, with around 450 guests getting to experience our state-of-the-art recycling facility, including the 95 percent recycling rate we achieve for end-of-life vehicles.

    A crowd of people at the inauguration of Stena Nordic Recycling Center
  • Grand opening of Stena Nordic Recycling Center

    October 26 will be the grand opening of Stena Nordic Recycling Center in Halmstad. A recycling facility the size of 80 soccer pitches with modern and efficient processes, making it possible to recycle more material, primarily metals, in a sustainable way from industry, households and society in general.

    Aerial view of Stena Nordic Recycling Center
  • New president at Stena Recycling AB

    Kristofer Sundsgård will take over as President of Stena Recycling on September 1st. The current President, Staffan Persson, will become Head of Business Area Recycling for the Stena Metall Group.

    The sight of a male and a female Stena Recycling employee in hi-vis protective gear that stand in a production facility is re
  • IL Recycling - now a company within Stena

    Stena has strengthened its position as a leader in Swedish recycling through the acquisition of IL Recycling. The Competition Authority has approved the transaction and the agreement was signed on June 30.

    Paper for recycling
  • Stena Metall signs agreement to acquire IL Recycling

    Stena Metall is acquiring IL Recycling, a total waste management supplier of recycling services, with operations in Sweden and Poland. Stena Metall is developing its position through its subsidiary Stena Recycling AB, a leading company in industrial recycling.

    Recycling bin for cardboard