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TexasTowelie

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Thu Mar 28, 2019, 02:30 PM Mar 2019

Nucor Corp. to invest $1.35B to build Kentucky steel mill, creating 400 jobs

BRANDENBURG — Nucor Corp., the nation's largest steel producer, will invest $1.35 billion to build a new sheet mill along the Ohio River in Meade County, creating 400 jobs over 15 years.

The investment, announced by the company Wednesday in Brandenburg, is a huge coup for Kentucky and adds to the state's growing steel and aluminum manufacturing sector.

The 1.5 million-square-foot facility will be built along a swath of bottom land where a grain shipping port is now located.

Jobs created by the project will pay an average of $72,000 annually, Nucor CEO John Ferriola said Wednesday afternoon, during an announcement at Meade County College and Career Center.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2019/03/27/kentucky-steel-mill-incentives-approved-400-jobs-expected/3279501002/

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