CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, February 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $290 million investments to expand the capabilities of the products of its Crawfordville, Indiana sheet steel plant by adding a construction grade continuous galvanizing line and a pre-painting line. This investment will create 80 jobs and is expected to take two years to complete pending permitting, regulatory approvals, allocation of state and local incentives and other tax considerations.

“Investing in Nucor Steel Indiana will allow us to increase our profitability in the Midwest construction region and expand Nucor’s prepaint footprint,” said Rex Query, Executive Vice President of Sheet and Tubular Products for Nucor Corporation. “This investment is part of our strategy to grow our core steel businesses and expand our portfolio of value-added products.”

The construction grade continuous galvanizing line will have a capacity of 300,000 tons per year while the prepainting line will have an annual capacity of 250,000 tons per year. This investment further expands Nucor’s existing galvanizing and prepainting capabilities, which include newly added continuous galvanizing lines at its plate mills in Arkansas and Kentuckyand the acquisition of a prepaint line at its Arkansas sheet rolling mill. Nucor Steel Indiana employs approximately 770 teammates.

Nucor Steel Indiana was Nucor’s first plate steel plant and began operations in 1989. Crawfordville is the plant where Nucor pioneered electric arc furnace (EAF) thin slab casting. Since that breakthrough, Nucor has continued to invest in advanced sheet steel products and technologies. Nucor operates five strategically located plate mills using thin slab casting machines and recently announced the addition of a sixth plate mill, a majority-owned joint venture in California. These mills produce flat-rolled steel for automotive, appliance, construction, pipe and tubing, and many other industrial and consumer applications. In September 2021Nucor announced plans to build a seventh plate mill, a state-of-the-art, three million ton capacity facility to be located in Mason County, West Virginiato serve the nation’s largest steel-consuming regions, the Midwest and Northeast.

About Nucor
Nucor and its subsidiaries are manufacturers of steel and steel products, with operating facilities in United States, Canada and Mexico. Products manufactured include: carbon and alloy steel –– in bars, beams, plates and plates; hollow structural section tubes; Electrical conduit; steel shelving; steel pilings; steel beams and joists; steel bridge; fabricated concrete reinforcing steel; cold finished steel; investment castings; steel fasteners; metal building systems; insulating metal panels; steel grating; and wire and wire mesh. Nucor, through The David J. Joseph Company, also trades ferrous and non-ferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron/direct reduced iron; provides ferroalloys; and processes ferrous and non-ferrous scrap. Nucor is North America biggest recycler.

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