Why this project qualifies
With $125 million in facility-specific investment and 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). 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 (Towers & Structures)
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Decatur, Alabama
- Investment
- $125.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 200
- Status
- Under Construction
- Announced
- Feb 22, 2023
- Expected opening
- Jun 1, 2026
- Added to tracker
- Feb 15, 2026
Sources
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
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