Nucor Darlington Mini Mill
Nucor Steel
1/2 H N ADVERTISER NAME ucor Steel - Darlington is a premier producer
120 pounds of limestone
of angles, channels, flats, rounds, rebar and
and 1,705 kilowatt hours of electricity.
hexagons. We are located in Darlington,
Take the 22 million tons of steel Nucor made in
South Carolina. Since beginning operations in 1969
2007. That’s enough electricity saved to power over
as Nucor Corporation’s first bar mill, Nucor - Darling-
6.5 million homes for a year.
ton has grown to become the largest bar producer in
While conservation of natural resources is by itself
the Southeast. We have a state-of-the-art 160-ton DC
an environmental benefit, it pales in comparison to
electric furnace supplying two highly efficient rolling
the benefits brought about by the reduction of criteria
mills. We produce special bar quality, merchant bar
pollutants released into the atmosphere. (Think about
quality, and reinforcing bar products.
all that coal we no longer need to burn.) Compared to
As the name implies, Nucor mini mills are small.
the blast furnace, the mini mill’s arc furnace releases
But their small footprint on the land is just one ben-
86 fewer pounds of pollutants into the air for every
efit to their very environmentally friendly nature.
ton of steel made. In a year’s time, that has the effect
For starters, a mini mill’s electric arc furnace requires much less in the way of natural resources. In fact, compared to the traditional blast furnace
of reducing particulate matter emissions by over 2 million tons. It all starts with recycling. By cleaning up our land
process, every ton of steel made the mini mill way
of scrap steel, we’re able to reduce mining waste by
eliminates the need for:
97 percent, air pollution by 86 percent and water pol-
2,500 pounds of iron ore 1,400 pounds of coal
lution by 76 percent. It’s a win-win situation.
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