New Galvanizing Capacity

North American steel mills have recently completed or are underway with capacity additions totaling more than 5 million short tons per year of galvanizing and Galvalume coating capabilities. If you know of any new steel coating capacity coming online, please let us know at info@steelmarketupdate.com. We will continue to update the chart.

New Galvanizing Capacity

Company Mill Location Country Annual capacity (short tons) Completion date Investment Link
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Hamilton, Ont. Canada 120,000 (aluminum-silicon coating capability added to existing No. 5 HDG line) 2022 $18.5 million SMU Dec. 28, 2020
BlueScope Greenfield cold rolling and coating facility US Midwest USA ~300,000 2028 $800 million (incl. one coating line) SMU Aug. 21, 2024
Nucor California Steel Industries (CSI) Fontana, Calif. USA 500,000 mid-2027 $375 million SMU Dec. 19, 2022
Nucor Steel Arkansas Hickman, Ark. USA 500,000 2021 -- SMU Nov. 21, 2018
Nucor Steel Berkeley Huger, S.C. USA 500,000 mid-2026 $430 million (this and a paint line) SMU May 3, 2024
Nucor Steel Indiana Crawfordsville, Ind. USA 300,000 (construction grade) late 2025 $430 million (this and a paint line) SMU Feb. 1, 2022
Nucor Steel West Virginia Mason County, W.Va. USA 500,000 late 2026 $3.5 billion total for W.Va. mill SMU April 26, 2022
Nucor Steel West Virginia Mason County, W.Va. USA 500,000 2025 $3.5 billion total for W.Va. mill SMU Oct. 20, 2023
TBD Western US - TBD USA *TBD *TBD $430 million SMU Sept. 28, 2022
Nucor / JFE Nucor-JFE Steel Mexico Silao, Guanajuato Mexico 400,000 (automotive grade) 2020 -- SMU Mar. 5, 2020
Steel Dynamics Inc. Heartland Terre Haute, Ind. USA 300,000 2024 -- SMU Oct. 19, 2023
Sinton Sinton, Texas USA 550,000 2021 -- SMU Oct. 19, 2023
Sinton Sinton, Texas USA 300,000 2024 $225 million (this and a paint line) SMU July 2, 2021
Ternium Pesqueria Pesqueria, Nuevo Leon Mexico 500,000 2025 -- SMU Nov. 1, 2023
U.S. Steel Big River Steel Osceola, Ark. USA 325,000 2024 -- SMU Oct. 27, 2023
Total of above mills (excludes potential projects) 5,495,000
* denotes potential project not yet confirmed


Last Reviewed: Sept. 13, 2024