With $700 million in facility-specific investment and 100 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The steel context.
American steelmakers are building a new generation of electric-arc-furnace mills alongside expanded sheet, plate, rebar and coating lines. Nucor, U.S. Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs, Steel Dynamics, CMC, BlueScope and Hyundai Steel are adding capacity for automakers, construction and grid infrastructure across the industrial Midwest, Southeast and Southwest.
At a glance
- Company
- BlueScope
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Delta, Ohio
- Investment
- $700.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 100
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Aug 15, 2019
- Operations began
- Aug 1, 2022
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Official references
- BlueScope FY2020 annual report and Appendix 4E disclosing the approved North Star expansion https://www.bluescope.com/content/dam/bluescope/corporate/bluescope-com/investor/documents/2020_BlueScope_FY_Results_Appendix_4E_and_Annual_Report.pdf