With $425 million in facility-specific investment, this project clears AFT's $100 million investment threshold (AFT includes any project meeting $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
- Nucor
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Huger, South Carolina
- Investment
- $425.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- More than 50
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Sep 28, 2022
- Opening timeline
- Nucor reported in its third-quarter 2026 results, released October 26, 2026, that the second galvanizing line at Nucor Steel Berkeley had recently started up. Nucor has not published the exact start date.
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Official references
- Primary source https://investors.nucor.com/news/news-details/2022/Nucor-to-Construct-Two-Flat-Rolled-Galvanizing-Lines-09-28-2022/default.aspx
- Nucor, "Nucor Reports Results for the Third Quarter of 2026" (Oct 26, 2026) https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nucor-reports-results-for-the-third-quarter-of-2026-302919790.html
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Nucor, Huger, SC." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/nucor-berkeley-huger. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.