"Nucor Steel Gallatin's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on the banks of the Ohio River, features three DC electric arc furnaces,two ladle metallurgy stations, a thick slab continuous caster, a 2-stand roughing mill, a 6-stand hot finishing mill, and a hot band pickle galvanizing line. The mill produces 3 million tons of hot band coils annually." [nkychamber]
They recently added a $164m tube mill. [gem]
The tube mill "will provide capacity to produce 250,000 tons of steel tubing annually, including hollow structural section tubing, mechanical steel tubing and galvanized solar torque tubing. These products will serve the construction, infrastructure and renewable energy industries." [gaylor]
This is one of five Nucor locations that produces sheet products using the thin-slab casting technology that they pioneered in their Crawfordsville, IN, mill in 1989. [nucor]
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| Keener White posted Nucor. Ghent KY |
herald-dispatch has several interior photos.
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