Sweden – Talent & Trade

By 2030, Sweden’s grocery sector aims for all plastic packaging to be made from renewable or recycled materials, making them fully recyclable. 🌍🌱 🔬 This ambitious journey includes Europe’s most advanced plastic sorting facility—a €260M investment set to handle all of Sweden’s needs while leading innovation in circular economies. 💡 Why does it matter? In Sweden, 25% of collected plastic is recycled into new raw material today. By focusing on renewable resources and cutting-edge sorting, we’re turning a major environmental challenge into a global blueprint for sustainable packaging. 👉 Join Sweden’s mission to eliminate fossil fuels and make circular solutions the new norm. Together, let’s pioneer the possible. #Greentransition #Circulareconomy #Sustainability #Sweden #Pioneerthepossible #Fossilfreesweden

⚡ From being 98% fossil-free today, Sweden’s electricity sector aims for complete fossil-free production by 2030, while enabling other industries to decarbonize. Here’s how: 🌱 Smart grids and flexible energy systems to meet growing demands. 🔌 Integrating EV charging infrastructure for sustainable transport. 💡 Pioneering vehicle-to-grid technologies, turning cars into energy assets. The energy sector is laying the foundation for Sweden’s climate-neutral future. Together, we’re not just meeting challenges; we’re creating opportunities. 🌍 The industry has seized the momentum and several Swedish companies are at the forefront with innovative solutions chasing the climate goals as well as business opportunities. Image 1) Stockholm Exergi operates Europe’s largest bio-cogeneration plant, the KW8 facility, which generates heat and power from waste products of the forestry and lumber industries. Photographer: Robin Hayes Image 2) Skanska windpark in Västerbotten, northern Sweden generates clean, renewable energy. Focus is on minimizing environmental impact during construction and ensures long-term benefits for the surrounding community and environment. Photographer: Tomas Ärlemo Image 3) The biggest effort for the climate and a sustainable change starts in the mine. Mining company LKABs contribution in the green transition aims to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by 40-50 million tonnes annually. Photographer: Fredric Alm Image 4) and 5) HYBRIT, a partnership of two state-owned enterprises – mining company LKAB and utility Vattenfall – and private steelmaker SSAB, has pioneered new technology that can produce green steel without coal. Instead it uses hydrogen and renewable electricity. Photographer Åsa Bäcklin Sunday’s United Nations World Clean Energy Day, help us spread the word: Together, we can build a greener, more resilient world. #Pioneerthepossible #Sweden #Cleanenergy

🏗️ Did you know? Cement, often called the backbone of modern infrastructure, is essential for the world’s housing and water systems. Globally, 30 billion tons of it are used annually announting for 8% of the world's CO2 emissions! Yet Swedish companies is pioneering a shift: making this indispensable material climate-neutral. 🏗️ By adopting national standards for sustainable procurement, incentivizing recycling, and funding advanced R&D in carbon capture, Sweden is transforming the cement industry into a global model for sustainability. 💡 As the world’s population grows and urbanizes, Sweden is proving that scaling up can go hand-in-hand with cutting emissions. Let’s co-create a resilient future! 🌍 The video shows Swedish cement industry’s' roadmap to decreased fossil emissions. Heidelberg Materials Cement Sverige Fossilfritt Sverige #Innovation #Sustainability #GreenTransition #Sweden #Pioneerthepossible

Did you know that the classic Coca-Cola glass bottle has some Swedish roots? 🇸🇪 In 1915, the American soda company launched a nationwide competition to design a new bottle – and they aimed high, to say the least. The brief? ‘A bottle so distinct it could be recognised by touch in the dark or even when broken on the ground.' 👀 Enter Alexander Samuelson – glassblower extraordinaire and 19th-century immigrant from Surte, west Sweden. As the shop foreman of contenders Root Glass Company in Indiana, Samuelson sent two of his men to a local library to look for design inspiration. 📚 What caught their eye? An illustration of a cocoa pod. 🌱 The pod’s elongated shape and distinct ribs would inspire their winning design and the ribbed shape of the glass bottle we know today. 🏆 The patent, much like Coca-Cola’s secret recipe, became a central part of the company’s highly recognisable branding. 🔐 A fun fact: Coca-Cola was forbidden in Sweden until 1953 because of food laws against caffeine and phosphoric acid! ❌🇸🇪 The Coca-Cola Company #CocaCola #AlexanderSamuelson #SwedishDesign #DesignHistory 📸: 1. Records of the Patent and Trademark Office/National Archives (Patent No. 48106) 2. Jörgen Ludwigsson/Smålands Museum 3. Photographer unknown/Svenska formgivare 4. Medicaster/Wikimedia 5. Bertil Samuelsson/Postmuseum 6. Percy Heldebrandt/Grenna Museum 7. Photograoher unknown

🌟 Big Changes in the Building Industry! 🏘️⚙️ 🎯 The construction and civil engineering sector in Sweden is responsible for 22% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. But guess what? The sector is taking giant steps to change that. 💪🌿 🚜 Electrified machinery 🛢️ Renewable fuels 🔁 Circular economy practices Sweden is proving that it’s possible to balance growth and sustainability. Let’s go #FossilFree! 💥🌍 What innovations do you think will shape the future of construction? Share below! ⬇️ Video shows graphics presenting goals to fossil free emissions for Swedish construction sector. #GreenTransition #Construction #Innovation #Sweden #Fossilfreesweden #Pioneerthepossible

What is happiness? Money, meaningfulness, quality of life? Big questions demand big thinking. 💭 Stockholm School of Economics recently opened its Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness. The business school now offers all of its students the chance to take part in the Center's courses and lectures, as a way to achieve a more holistic approach to economics studies. 🏛️ The Center's founding idea, in short, is that if we can increase people's wellbeing, society will benefit. People's wellbeing and happiness are connected to the welfare of the community. 💙 What makes you happy? 🤔 Music: Happiness in a Box by Frank Jonsson/Epidemic Sound

Did you know that a cool lab in Lund makes it possible to study atoms! 🔬✨ The MAX IV Laboratory in Lund allows researchers to study and explore the tiny world of atoms and molecules via X-ray light 💡🔍. The research done at MAX IV could lead to more sustainable materials, new energy solutions, new batteries, medicines, and treatments. Meet Dr. Emelie Hilner at the lab. 👋 #GreenTransition #Innovation #research #Sweden #PioneerthePossible

📅 The 2024 working year is drawing to a close... soon the final work tasks will be done, the schools will hold their last lessons, and the shops will become a hub of last minute festive activity ✨ This year we launched our channel to show the benefits of... ⭐ working in Sweden ⭐ Sweden as trade partner ⭐ the innovations and solutions that Swedish companies are developing to meet global challenges Thank you for your support and engagement in our first year! We will be back in 2025 providing the big picture perspectives about Sweden and the details of how we can contribute to the green and digital transition.

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Seasonal traditions punctuate the Swedish working year, and the celebration of Lucia on the 13th December is marked in most people's diaries📅 For people with children, leaving work to attend a school Lucia procession and singing is common. 💡Many people avoid scheduling meetings for the 13th as it is widely accepted that people's availability might be limited Their are formal and informal events across the country with processions and singing at kindergartens, churches, schools, workplaces, hospitals, and care homes ... and even on TV! 🕯️ But as with any Swedish tradition, there will always be cake and the favoured one for this time of year is Lussekatter/Swedish saffron buns ⭐