Nucor (NYSE: NUE) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Nucor is a leading steel producer known for manufacturing high-quality steel products using environmentally friendly practices.

Nucor
Nucor is a manufacturer of steel and fabricated steel products, operating primarily in North America through electric arc furnace steelmaking facilities and downstream operations. The company produces a range of steel products, including carbon and alloy steel in sheet, bar, structural, and plate forms, as well as steel joists, deck, fasteners, building systems, overhead doors, and piling. Nucor also processes and recycles ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals through its raw materials division to supply its mill operations and external customers. The company operates across three main reportable business segments: steel mills, steel products, and raw materials.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Nucor
- Steel Mills - Sheet Steel: Production of hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products using electric arc furnace facilities to serve North American automotive, appliance, energy, and construction industries with flat-rolled steel solutions.
- Steel Mills - Structural & Bar Steel: Production of structural steel beams, merchant bar, rebar, and cold-finished bar through mini-mill manufacturing networks supplying non-residential building, infrastructure, agricultural, and commercial construction projects throughout the United States and Canada.
- Steel Mills - Steel Plate: Fabrication of discrete, cut-to-length, and coiled steel plate products utilized in heavy equipment manufacturing, energy infrastructure projects, offshore wind platforms, military defense applications, and specialty industrial capital equipment.
- Steel Products - Fabricated Steel Building Components: Manufacturing engineered steel joists, metal decking, joist girders, insulated metal panels, fasteners, and pre-engineered metal building systems serving non-residential building projects, distribution centers, industrial facilities, and commercial real estate development.
- Steel Products - Tubular Products & Overhead Doors: Production of hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, tested pipe, overhead garage doors, high-performance commercial doors, and warehouse racking systems distributed to construction, data center, and industrial equipment markets.
- Raw Materials - Scrap Processing & Direct Reduced Iron: Processing and recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, alongside producing direct reduced iron pellet feedstock, to supply internal electric arc furnace steelmaking mills and sell surplus commodities to external global industrial consumers.
Nucor executive team
- Mr. Leon J. TopalianPresident, CEO & Chairman of the Board
- Mr. Stephen D. LaxtonCFO, Treasurer & Executive VP
- Mr. K. Rex QueryExecutive Vice President of Strategy
- Mr. Allen C. BehrExecutive Vice President of Raw Materials
- Mr. Daniel R. NeedhamExecutive Vice President of Commercial
- Mr. David A. SumoskiChief Operating Officer
- Chris JacobiDirector of Investor Relations
- Mr. Douglas R. WilnerPresident of Corporate Legal Affairs & General Counsel
- Ms. Elizabeth BledsoePresident of Human Resources & Talent
- Mr. D. Chad UtermarkExecutive Vice President of New Markets & Innovation