Nucor Corporation announced today that it will reorganize the company's plate group, including ceasing production at Nucor Steel Longview, LLC, in Texas. All Nucor Steel Longview teammates will be offered employment opportunities at other Nucor divisions.
Purchased by Nucor in 2016 for approximately $29 million, the mill produces heavy steel plate and has a rated annual capacity of 100,000 tons. The assets at Longview will be evaluated and deployed across Nucor's mills where appropriate, the company said in a press release.
Nucor said it expects the phase out of production to occur in the third quarter of this year. Production will be transferred to Nucor's remaining plate mills, including its new state-of-the-art plate mill in Brandenburg, Kentucky, which began operating earlier this year. The Brandenburg mill will produce discrete, coiled, and heat-treated plate ranging from 60 to 168 inches wide, and in gauges from 3/16 of an inch to 14 inches.
Nucor also operates a discrete plate mill in Hertford County, North Carolina and a cut-to-length and discrete mill in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.