Sverdrup sources material from long-term partners abiding by European standards. Our concern for production sustainability is regularly being met, while reconciling emission data across destinations is an ongoing task.
Conditions
Our conditions for providing a credible sustainability account are as follows:
Emission factor considerations
Svedrup Steel applies a cradle-to-gate (C2G) perspective, covering raw material extraction, transportation, and manufacturing (“gate”) for each material grade delivered. The approach makes it easier to collect data, while focusing on factors which the company can control.
As a conditioning factor, the proportion of recycled raw material in each grade is calculated as a reduction of the emission factor. For example, if manufacturing a virgin batch of titanium emits 40-60 kilos of CO2e per kilo product, recycled content might reduce this factor to 3 kilos CO2e per kilo material.
There is a lack of common practice between manufacturers, regulators, and markets regarding product carbon footprints (PCFs) for metal alloys, despite of available standards such as ISO 14068. This means that emission measurements and calculation across producers might aggregate a degree of uncertainty in Sverdrup’s final footprint account. One such uncertainty arises from the differences in PCF value (CO2e/kg) between different processing of the same material grade, for example hotrolled vs. cold-rolled plates, or plate vs. bar.
Another uncertainty is the lack of producerspecific PCFs for parts of the volumes. As our data systems don’t allow us to track deviations across volumes and through our value chain, we have collected and equated available data into reconciled emission factors per material grade. Full documentation of each PCF is available upon request.
Recorded CO2 emissions reported to Sverdrup Steel from our transport contractors amounted to 82 tonnes of CO2e in 2025. As this represents only parts of our transportation, we choose to not disclose a full transportation GHG scope 3 for 2025.
