With $115 million in facility-specific investment and up to 200 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
- Nucor (Towers & Structures)
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Investment
- $115.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- Up to 200
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Jun 14, 2023
- Opening timeline
- Nucor reported in October 2026 that the Crawfordsville facility employs 328 people. Nucor has not published the date operations began.
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Official references
- Primary source https://investors.nucor.com/2023/Nucor-Announces-Location-for-Second-Utility-Structures-Production-Facility
- Nucor (PR Newswire), "Nucor to Expand Utility Towers & Structures Facility in Indiana," October 8, 2026 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nucor-to-expand-utility-towers--structures-facility-in-indiana-302902440.html
- Indiana Economic Development Corporation, "Nucor Expands Indiana Investment with $115M Utility Structures Manufacturing Facility," June 14, 2023 https://iedc.in.gov/events/news/details/2023/06/14/nucor-expands-indiana-investment-with-115m-utility-structures-manufacturing-facility
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Nucor, Crawfordsville, IN." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/nucor-towers-structures-crawfordsville. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.