Applications open for Swedish Steel Prize 2025

Swedish Steel Prize recognizes those who improve their business, industry or society through the creative use of steel. Welcoming entries from across the world, Swedish Steel Prize is meant to inspire engineers, designers and inventors to explore the unlimited potential of steel. The competition promotes the sharing of innovative solutions that lead to a better and more sustainable world.

Benefits

• The winner is presented at an award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, during the Swedish Steel Prize Days taking place May 6–8, 2025. During the three days, industry peers come together to discuss and draw inspiration from new steel technologies and their applications. The prize money of SEK 100,000 is donated by SSAB to a charity.
• The winner receives a diploma, a statuette and intense media exposure.

Eligibility Criteria

• Swedish Steel Prize is open to companies and institutions and is awarded to the method or product that best displays how the properties of the steel have contributed to a significant innovation. To qualify, the products nominated must be viable from a business perspective and exist at least in the form of a prototype while the methods must be tested and documented for use in production.

Entry Criteria

• Entries must be a method or product.
  • If the entry is a product
    • it must be viable from a business perspective and a prototype must exist. However, the product does not need to be in full production.
    • it must be within SSAB’s product range, but does not necessarily need to be steel produced by SSAB.
  • If the entry is a method
    • it must be tested and documented for use in production.

For more information, visit Swedish Steel Prize.