Nucor Steel Brandenburg plant
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Nucor Steel Brandenburg plant is a steel plant in Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States:
- Location: Buttermilk Falls Industrial Park, Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 37.9999454, -86.1398738 (exact)
Background
The Nucor Steel Brandenburg plant was proposed by Nucor Steel in March 2019. The plant was originally said to cost $1.35 billion and is expected to begin operations in mid-2022, with 400 full-time employes.[1] Nucor announced they would source the electric arc furnace for the plant from the Danieli company.[2] According to Nucor, the intention for building the facility was to give the company the ability to produce 97 percent of the products demanded in the domestic plate market.[3]
Construction of the plant began in October 2020.[4] By this time, the cost of the facility had increased to $1.7 billion.[5]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Construction date | Start date | Workforce size |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-03[6] | 2022[7][8][9] | 400[10][9] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucor Corp | 4295904636 | E100001010181 | Nucor Corp[8] | 4295904636 | E100001010181 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | Main production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| finished rolled[11] | sheet, plate[11] | automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, steel packaging, tools and machinery, transport[12][13] | EAF |
Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status1 | Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 1450[14] | 1450[14] |
Table 5: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | EAF production | Other/unknown steel production | Total (all routes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | unknown | unknown | – |
| 2020 | unknown | unknown | – |
| 2021 | unknown | unknown | – |
| 2022 | unknown | unknown | – |
| 2023 | 936[15] | –[15] | 936[15] |
Unit Details
Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Start date | Furnace manufacturer and model | Current capacity (ttpa) | Current size (tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | operating[15] | 2022[15] | Danieli[14] | 1450[14] | 150.0[14] |
Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details
| Unit name | Scrap-based | % scrap | % DRI | % HBI | % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI) | % basic/merchant pig iron | % granulated pig iron | % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated | % other iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | yes[16] | 89.4[16] | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | 10.6[16] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ Nucor to Build New Plate Mill in Kentucky, Nucor Corporation, Mar. 27, 2019, Retrieved on: Aug. 19, 2020
- ↑ "Nucor selects Danieli for new Plate Steel Mill Complex". www.danieli.com. 2019-10-30. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Breakbulk - Nucor Plans Brandenburg Steel Mill". www.breakbulk.com. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Nucor starts work on Brandenburg, Ky. steel mill, WDRB, Oct. 23, 2020
- ↑ "Nucor breaks ground on $1.7 billion, 400-job steel mill in Brandenburg". Lane Report. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221010145420/https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/new-capacity-roundup-september-2022/. Archived from the original on 2022-10-10.
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{{cite web}}: Check|archive-url=value (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220112170718/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nucor-to-build-new-plate-mill-in-kentucky-300819673.html. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://nucor.com/news-release/19471.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221128172612/https://ced.ky.gov/Newsroom/NewsPage/20201023_nucor. Archived from the original on 2022-11-28.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20211216133805/https://www.nucor.com/locations/. Archived from the original on 2021-12-16.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230123171934/https://nucor.com/news-release/19491. Archived from the original on 2023-01-23.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220118112804/https://www.nucor.com/industries-served/. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18.
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