Nucor Corp., Charlotte, will upgrade its engineered bar mill in Nebraska to better serve the automotive market and meet customers’ needs for higher quality products. The modernization project will include a new reheat furnace, new intermediate mill, and coil inspection and trimming station.

The Brilex Group of Companies, Youngstown, Ohio, has hired former Nucor executive Doyle Hopper as CEO of Brilex Industries, Inc, Brilex Technical Solutions, LLC and Taylor-Winfield Technologies, Inc. As their CEO, Hopper will leverage nearly 30 years of steel industry and manufacturing expertise to drive strategic growth and commercial excellence across these companies.

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, reported record earnings of $942.4 million in the first quarter, more than doubling the figure from the prior quarter. The minimill’s earnings in first-quarter 2021 totaled $20.3 million.

Raymond S. Napolitan Jr. will retire on June 5 after 25 years with Nucor. He has been serving as executive vice president of engineered bar products and digital for the Charlotte, N.C.-based minimill producer.

Nucor Corporation will build its new tube mill on the site of its Nucor Steel Gallatin sheet mill in Kentucky. This location will allow the company to take advantage of investments Nucor has made to expand capacity of the Gallatin mill and add a galvanizing line.

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will build a 250,000-ton tube mill in the Midwest, the largest consuming region for steel and steel products. Products from the new tube mill will capitalize on investments Nucor has already made in the Midwest including a plate mill, galvanizing line and hot-roll expansion, the company claims.

Nucor Corporation will build its third TrueCore manufacturing facility. The 120,000-square-foot facility will be located in Brigham City, Utah.

A strong fourth quarter helped Nucor rebound from the first nine months of the year, but not enough to offset the conditions. The Charlotte, N.C.-based minimill company reported earnings of $398.8 million in the fourth quarter, more than doubling its earnings figure from the same period in 2019. For the full year, Nucor’s earnings totaled 721.4 million, a 43.2 percent decline.

Steel Dynamics President and CEO Mark Millett has been elected chairman of the Steel Manufacturers Association. The SMA is the leading trade group for electric arc furnace steelmaking.

Coating, such as prepainting, helps protect coils from a variety of conditions while producing aesthetically pleasing products.

A promising year for the industrial economy was turned on its head by the biggest public health crisis the globe has seen in more than a century.

David Sumoski has been named chief operating officer for Nucor. He had been serving as executive vice president of bar, rebar fabrication and construction services.

Michael J. Carroll will retire as president and CEO of Steel Technologies as part of a strategic succession plan. Thad Solomon will replace Carroll as president and CEO and Jun Ozone will join the company as chief commercial officer.

Lehner embraces change on the way to transforming the industry’s oldest business into a model for the next 178 years.

There’s never a time where a producer’s quality services is unappreciated by its customers. However, under the unprecedented conditions that faced the steel supply chain in 2020, working with a dependable source of material took on an entirely new meaning.

The new Nucor Corporation steel plate mill at Brandenburg, Ky., has selected Zurich, Switzerland-based ABB to supply its Flow Control Mold (FC Mold) electromagnetic stirring and braking solution to the Brandenburg’s site, home to one of the world’s widest thick slab continuous casters.

Nucor Corp. will purchase a paint line facility in Armorel, Ark., from Precoat Metals. The paint line facility, located near the Nucor Steel Arkansas sheet mill campus, has a capacity of approximately 250,000 tons per year. Nucor considered building a greenfield paint line before deciding to acquire the Precoat Metals facility.

The virtual SMU Steel Summit 2020 spread knowledge among those in the steel industry.