With $105 million in facility-specific investment and 100 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.
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
- $105.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 100
- Status
- Announced
- Announced
- Oct 8, 2026
- Opening timeline
- Not yet announced
- Added to tracker
- Oct 21, 2026
Official references
- 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
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Crawfordsville Utility Pole Expansion — Nucor, IN." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/nucor-towers-structures-crawfordsville-expansion-2026. Accessed October 22, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.
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