Höganäs AB

Höganäs AB is a Swedish industrial materials company whose business centres on metal powders and powder-based solutions. The company traces its origins to 1797, when Count Erik Ruuth established a coal-mining company, Höganäs Stenkolsverk, in the fishing village of Höganäs in southern Sweden. After operating under different names over its long history, the company adopted the name Höganäs AB in 1966. Today, Höganäs describes itself as the world’s leading manufacturer of metal powders for powder metallurgy. Its products serve a broad range of industrial sectors and processes, including pressing and sintering, brazing, surface coating, additive manufacturing, welding, friction management, and soft magnetic applications. The company also lists offerings for areas such as batteries, chemical applications, hot isostatic pressing, metal injection moulding, and solid oxide fuel and electrolysis cells. Its portfolio includes standard and customer-specific powder solutions, and its homepage identifies Ferrovolt iron powder for lithium iron phosphate batteries and the GLIDCOP copper alloy system among its named offerings. The company’s history also includes a ceramics business that grew out of clay produced as a by-product of coal mining. Its present-day identity, however, is centred on metal powders, materials innovation, and support for industrial customers. Höganäs states that it has about 2,200 employees, more than 3,500 products—mostly customer-specific—and 15 production centres around the world. It serves customers across geographies and provides technical services including design, simulation, prototyping, testing, material development, and support through industrialisation. The company’s technical centres and services are intended to help customers develop and optimise powder-based components and processes. Höganäs positions itself as an innovation partner, working with customers on cost-effective, lighter, and durable products. Its stated vision is “driving positive change through material innovation.” Sustainability is part of its corporate agenda: the company says it aims to become a sustainability benchmark within the steel industry and participates in the UN Global Compact. The supplied sources do not identify its current owner, parent company, or named executives.

Höganäs AB traces its origins to the development of mining in the Höganäs area of southern Sweden. The company’s official history notes that Maria Sophia de la Gardie laid foundations for mining operations in the 17th century through her business activities and ownership of a mine. The Scanian War disrupted mining, and operations did not resume on a large scale until the late 18th century. In 1797, Count Erik Ruuth established Höganäs Stenkolsverk, a coal-mining company in the fishing village of Höganäs. This date is presented by the company as its founding. The business developed beyond mining over the following decades. In 1825, clay produced as a by-product of coal mining began to be used, marking the start of the company’s ceramic era. Initial brick production was followed, about a decade later, by salt-glazed pottery, which became a significant product used in Swedish homes. The company says pottery production continues in Höganäs on a smaller scale. The firm’s name changed over time, and it eventually adopted the name Höganäs AB in 1966. The company’s present-day business is centred on metal powders and powder solutions. It describes itself as the world’s leading manufacturer of metal powders for powder metallurgy and serves applications spanning pressing and sintering, brazing, surface coating, additive manufacturing, welding, and friction management, among other areas. Höganäs’ current operating model combines products with technical collaboration and development services. The company says it offers support from idea generation and design through simulation, prototyping, testing, and industrialisation, and that technical centres are located around the world to be close to customers. Its history page reports about 2,200 employees, more than 3,500 products, mostly customer-specific, and 15 production centres around the world. The company’s stated vision is to drive positive change through material innovation. It also frames sustainability as central to its business and says it participates in the UN Global Compact. The supplied evidence does not establish the company’s present ownership structure, the identities of current executives, or a full sequence of later corporate transactions. Those details are therefore not asserted here.

• 1966

  Company adopts the name Höganäs AB

• 1835

  Salt-glazed pottery production begins

• 1825

  Ceramic era begins

• 1797

  Höganäs Stenkolsverk established

A global metal-powder and powder-metallurgy solutions partner focused on material innovation, customer-specific development, and cost-effective, lighter, durable industrial products.

• Metal powders for powder metallurgy

  The company’s core offering, used across industrial processes and applications.

• Ferrovolt

  Iron powder described on the company homepage as safe, stable, and cost-efficient for lithium iron phosphate batteries.

• GLIDCOP

  A copper alloy system listed among the company’s product areas.

• Additive-manufacturing metal powders

  Metal powders offered for additive manufacturing and 3D-printing applications.

• Brazing powders and pastes

  Powder and paste products for brazing technology.

• Commitment to sustainability and the UN Global CompactOther

1. 1Metal powders | Höganäshoganas.com
2. 2A leader in metal powders born in Sweden | Höganäshoganas.com
3. 3Services | Höganäshoganas.com
4. 4Sustainability | Höganäshoganas.com