Industrial strength

-World class steel, forests and power supplies

For centuries, Dalarna has been developing an influential steel industry. Multi-national giants such as SSAB, Ovako Steel and Outokumpu have large investments in the pipeline, ready to increase production output. As a result of the increase in demand and the world market price of iron ore, the mining industry in Dalarna is in an expanding phase with extensive investments to be made in the next couple of years.

With 70 percent of its area covered by forests, Dalarna is naturally one of Sweden's strongest bastions of the forestry and paper industries. Stora Enso in Kvarnsveden has one of the world's most modern paper manufacturing plants. The services and products of another 200 companies in Dalarna are linked to the forests, including successful manufactures of single-family homes like Fiskarhedenvillan and Tomoku hus.

Dalarna's third industrial base is the supply of electrical power. ABB, the world leader in power transmission equipment with HVDC technology, has 2,700 employees, one third of their Swedish work force, in Dalarna. At the plant in Ludvika, ABB manufactures the world's largest transformers for power networks.