With $1.9 billion in facility-specific investment and 700 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 aluminum & other metals context.
Facilities that smelt, refine, recycle, roll, extrude, or cast nonferrous metals, including aluminum, copper, titanium, and nickel alloys. Iron and steel remain in Steel. Critical-mineral processing and battery-specific materials follow their dedicated category rules.
At a glance
- Company
- Steel Dynamics
- Industry
- Aluminum & Other Metals
- Location
- Columbus, Mississippi
- Investment
- $1.90B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 700
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Jul 19, 2022
- Operations began
- Jun 16, 2025
- Added to tracker
- Oct 14, 2026
Official references
- Steel Dynamics — original recycled-aluminum flat-rolled mill announcement, July 2022 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465922080702/tm2221292d2_ex99-1.htm
- Steel Dynamics — Columbus site selection, mill-specific investment and 700 positions, November 2, 2022 https://ir.steeldynamics.com/steel-dynamics-announces-planned-state-of-the-art-aluminum-flat-rolled-mill-site-selection/
- Steel Dynamics — first commercial shipments, June 16, 2025 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022671/000110465925069499/tm2521371d1_ex99-1.htm
- Steel Dynamics — second quarter 2026 results: production and ramp-up https://ir.steeldynamics.com/steel-dynamics-reports-second-quarter-2026-results/
Cite this project
American Factory Tracker. "Columbus Recycled Aluminum Flat-Rolled Mill — Steel Dynamics, MS." https://americanfactorytracker.com/projects/steel-dynamics-columbus-aluminum-flat-rolled-mill. Accessed October 14, 2026.
Please also cite the original sources listed above for underlying figures.