Why it matters
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.
Project record
At a glance
- Company
- Commercial Metals Company
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Mesa, Arizona
- Investment
- $300.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 185
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Aug 14, 2020
- Operations began
- Oct 25, 2023
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://www.azcommerce.com/news-events/news/2023/10/cmc-celebrates-grand-opening-of-new-micro-mill-in-mesa/
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