"New model for social development: "The world is looking for the...

"New model for social development: "The world is looking for the answer you found"

The Center Party's party leader Muharrem Demirok visited Luleå on Monday to meet some of the actors involved in the Luleå Industripark project, and he was impressed by what he heard:
- I get a little dizzy when I listen to you, it's such an extreme social change you're working on.




On site to meet the party leader were Robert Eriksson, project manager Luleå Industripark, Oskar Hederyd, Luleå Business Region, Carl Wangel, SSAB, and David Högnelid, LKAB. The program also included a visit to Talga's pilot plant.

During the visit to Vetenskapen hus, Demikrok received a brief overview of everyone on site about their respective parts of the project, but also how the whole fits together and that the entire value chain is necessary for everything to work.

- What you do is enormously impressive, it is several levels above normal. With a complexity that is so great that it is difficult to grasp. There is an extreme social transformation underway. Here, the state must step in more actively, of course. It will take time, but it must be solved politically so that it happens, says Muharrem Demirok.



During his stay in Luleå, Demirok visited Talga's pilot plant. Pictured from left: Oskar Hederyd, Luleå Business Region, Arne Nykänen, (C) group leader, Emma Själin, Talga, Muharram Demirok, (C)

They also highlighted that the industries have taken initiatives to collaborate in new ways, where they want increased support from the state to find more solutions of the same caliber as the power distribution model, which is now called the "Luleå model" where Svenska kraftnät after round-table discussions changed its way of working.

- The whole world is looking for the answer that you have found here, the green industrial transition, says Muharrem Demirok when he has received more facts about each industrial project's part in the whole, and continues:

- I understand that everything starts with the ore deposits. That the Malmbanan is a prerequisite. We've been in a situation now where we've kind of lived on investments made 50 years ago or older. Now we have to do a bigger review. We must raise the framework for the Swedish Transport Administration, simply free up more capital to work to catch up with the needs that exist. It must take place throughout the country, we cannot continue to pit different projects against each other. There is so much to learn from you for the rest of the country, you are developing a completely new model for social development here."

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