Why this project qualifies
With $1.7 billion in facility-specific investment and 400 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.
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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
- Nucor
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Brandenburg, Kentucky
- Investment
- $1.70B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 400
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Mar 27, 2019
- Operations began
- Oct 6, 2023
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://newkentuckyhome.ky.gov/Newsroom/NewsPage/20231006_Nucor_Grand_Opening
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