Why this project qualifies
With $2.2 billion in facility-specific investment and 600 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
- Steel Dynamics
- Industry
- Steel
- Location
- Sinton, Texas
- Investment
- $2.20B
- Permanent jobs announced
- 600
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Sep 26, 2019
- Operations began
- Dec 1, 2021
- Added to tracker
- Apr 15, 2025
Sources
Official references
- Primary source https://ir.steeldynamics.com/steel-dynamics-announces-planned-new-flat-roll-steel-mill-site-selection/
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