With $125 million in facility-specific investment and approximately 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
- Decatur, Alabama
- Investment
- $125.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- Approximately 200
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Feb 22, 2023
- Opening timeline
- Nucor reported that its Alabama Towers & Structures facility came online in 2025. Previously targeted opening: 2026.
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Official references
- Primary source https://investors.nucor.com/news/news-details/2023/Nucor-to-Build-New-Transmission-Tower-Production-Plant-in-Alabama-02-22-2023/default.aspx
- Nucor, "Nucor Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter of 2025," January 26, 2026 https://nucor.com/news-release/nucor-reports-results-for-the-fourth-quarter-of-2025-122985
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Nucor, Decatur, AL." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/nucor-towers-structures-decatur. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.