Why this project qualifies
With $650 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). 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
- Ghent, Kentucky
- Investment
- $650.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 70
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Sep 7, 2018
- Operations began
- Jun 1, 2022
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://investors.nucor.com/news/news-details/2018/Nucor-Announces-Plans-to-Expand-Sheet-Mill-in-Kentucky-09-07-2018/default.aspx
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