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Nucor Steel West Virginia

construction

EAF route · Mason County, North America, United States

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Nucor Steel West Virginia is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 3.0 million tonnes per year. Its main products are galvanized, cold rolled, sheet.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Announced2021
Construction2023
Operating2026

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

3,000

EAF

3,000

Steel Units

EAF
unknown EAF (1)construction
1,500 ttpa190 tSMS Groupwiki
EAF
unknown EAF (2)construction
1,500 ttpa190 tSMS Groupwiki

Steel Products

galvanized, cold rolled, sheet

Ownership

Owner Nucor Corp

Parent Nucor Corp [100.0%]

Workforce 800 employees

Country Context

United States crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).