With $450 million in facility-specific investment and approximately 230 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). It is also confirmed by official public sources and involves a physical manufacturing facility in the United States.
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
- Commercial Metals Company
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Berkeley County, West Virginia
- Investment
- $450.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- Approximately 230
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- Dec 8, 2022
- Opening timeline
- Commissioning is underway: CMC rolled its first billet during hot commissioning in fall 2026. Production start has not yet been declared, and CMC expects startup to take about 12 months.
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Official references
- Primary source https://www.cmc.com/en-US/Landing-Pages/West-Virginia
- Commercial Metals Company, fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call (transcript published by Investing.com), October 2026 https://www.investing.com/news/transcripts/earnings-call-transcript-commercial-metals-tops-q4-2026-estimates-93CH-4952344
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Commercial Metals Company, Berkeley County, WV." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/cmc-berkeley-county. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.