Every year, between 20 and 40 students complete their thesis work at LKAB. We also have the privilege of welcoming and working with several trainees and interns. You could be one of them.

LKAB is embarking on the greatest transition in the company's 130-year history and what is perhaps the biggest-ever investment in Swedish industry. And sights are set high. By setting a new world standard for sustainable mining, producing carbon-dioxide-free sponge iron and broadening the business with extraction of critical minerals, LKAB aims to make its products and processes CO2-free by 2045.

The mine of the future will be carbon-free, digitalised and autonomous. LKAB’s transformation for a sustainable future involves an initiative that could become Sweden’s largest ever industrial investment – but more than that, it’s also the biggest thing Sweden can do to reduce global emissions.

Utilizing side streams from our own and others’ industrial operations allows us to create new high quality, environmentally efficient products. “Already today, more than a third of LKAB’s sales of industrial minerals are from secondary streams of raw materials, generating over a billion kronor in income” says David Högnelid, Chief Strategy Officer for Business Area Special Products.

Spot came to LKAB in autumn 2020 and now, just over nine months later and after intensive training, this robot dog is both safer and more secure in LKAB's underground environments. Since Spot is equipped with AI technology, the robot has the ability to recognize environments, adapt to the terrain and develop patterns of movement based on situations it has previously encountered. "Spot has performed a 520-metre-long Autowalk while at the same time scanning the area.