In 2008, Höganäs’ environmental activities featured efforts to streamline facilities, mainly in terms of energy and raw materials consumption. Activities conducted or underway at Höganäs’ facilities are as follows:

   Höganäs (Sweden)
• Installation of frequency inverters for four smoke fans in the sponge works   could achieve a potential 30% saving in power consumption at the plant.
• Installation of an excess heat boiler, enabling surplus heat from exhaust gases to be utilised to increase district heat production by some 5 MW during scheduled production.

   Halmstad (Sweden)
• Installation of a silencer has helped reduce noise in the surroundings.

   Mogi das Cruzes (Brazil)
• Production capacity has been co-located to a single site, reducing internal transports between the previous two locations by about half a million ton kilometres of truck transports per year.

   Ahmednagar (India)
• New smoke extractors and filter installations further reduce dust emissions.
• New plant for recovering excess heat from the belt furnace process replacing a boiler for vaporizing LPG, reducing LPG needs by 1% yearly.

   Stony Creek (US)
• Installation of oxyfuel technology in the arc furnace is increasing the energy efficiency of the smelting process and reducing CO₂ and NO_X emissions.

   Johnstown (US)
• Investments to further improve dust extraction system in several production phases, streamlining the collection of dust and reducing emissions.