Nucor Corp. NUE

What this company does

Nucor and its affiliates manufacture steel and steel products. In 2025 it recycled approximately 20 million gross tons of scrap steel. It employs approximately 33,000 people, most of them based in the United States, where most of its operations are located. The company reports its results in three segments: steel mills, steel products and raw materials. In the steel mills segment it produces sheet steel, plate steel, structural steel and bar steel. In the steel products segment it produces steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, steel tubing, electrical conduit, cold finished steel, fasteners, wire and wire mesh, metal building systems, insulated metal panels, steel racking, overhead doors and utility towers and structures. In the raw materials segment it produces direct reduced iron and, through The David J. Joseph Company and its affiliates, brokers ferrous and non-ferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron, supplies ferro-alloys and processes scrap metal. Nucor Corporation was incorporated in Delaware in 1958.

Written from the business description in NUCOR CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.