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Boliden
Swedish metals and mining company. Revenue ~SEK 80B (2024). Operates Kokkola zinc smelter (Finland, ~315K MT/yr — largest in Europe) and Odda smelter (Norway, ~200K MT/yr). Also mines copper, gold, silver in Scandinavia. Key European galvanizing-grade zinc supplier.
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Boliden Harjavalta Smelter →
FIHarjavalta, Satakunta, Finland · smelter
Continued operating through 2023-2024 Rönnskär fire period. Accounts for Finland's 170 MT selenium output in 2024 (USGS). Partially compensated for Sweden's total loss.
Boliden Kokkola Zinc Smelter →
FIKokkola, Central Ostrobothnia · manufacturing
Boliden Kokkola zinc smelter in Kokkola, Finland; 315,000 t/yr capacity — one of Europe's largest zinc smelters. Primary supplier of SHG zinc to European alkaline battery assemblers. Source: https://www.boliden.com/operations/smelters/boliden-kokkola
Boliden Odda Zinc Smelter →
NOOdda, Vestland · manufacturing
Norwegian zinc smelter ~200K MT/yr. First zinc smelter in Norway (1924). Expanding under Boliden ownership; hydropower-based smelting gives one of the lowest-carbon zinc production profiles globally.
Boliden Rönnskär Smelter →
SESkelleftehamn, Västerbotten, Sweden · smelter
Fire on June 13, 2023 destroyed the electrolytic refinery. All selenium production halted. Sweden selenium output: 50 MT (2023) → 0 MT (2024, USGS MCS 2025). ~190 workers redundant. 700M SEK (~M) EBIT hit Q2 2023. Restoration timeline uncertain as of early 2025. 250,000 t/yr copper capacity when operational.
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Zinc Smelting (Kokkola & Odda)
40%Copper Smelting & Refining
25%Mining (Scandinavia)
25%Precious Metals
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Did you know2023
Boliden's European zinc smelters (Kokkola and Odda, combined ~515K MT/yr) supply galvanizing-grade zinc that protects steel infrastructure across Europe from corrosion -- guardrails, bridges, construction steel, industrial facilities. The same Boliden operations also produce gold and silver from copper anode slime refining and byproduct processing at Harjavalta. European infrastructure maintenance (zinc for galvanizing) and precious metals markets (gold/silver) are simultaneously served by the same Scandinavian mining and smelting complex. When European construction investment slows and zinc demand falls, Boliden's revenue is partially cushioned by precious metals prices that often move inversely with economic cycles -- gold rises during recessions when construction spending falls. This natural hedge is invisible in how Boliden is classified by analysts (most cover it as a base metals company, missing the precious metals buffer).
Boliden AB ↗Origin2023
Boliden AB traces its origin to the discovery of a major gold and silver deposit near the village of Boliden in northern Sweden's Vasterbotten County in 1924. The Boliden ore deposit was exceptionally rich in gold, silver, copper, zinc, arsenic, and bismuth -- a complex polymetallic ore that required novel smelting technology to process. The Swedish state and private investors built processing infrastructure in the remote Skelleftea region, and the mining district became one of the primary drivers of northern Swedish industrialization in the 1930s. Today Boliden operates the Aitik copper mine (Scandinavia's largest open-pit mine) and the Kokkola zinc smelter in Finland (Europe's largest zinc smelter) from this same northern Scandinavian mining heritage, though the original Boliden gold mine in Vasterbotten is no longer operational.
Boliden AB ↗