Nucor Steel Kankakee, Inc. selects SMS group for new merchant bar mill

Nucor Steel Kankakee, Inc., based in Illinois, U.S.A., has chosen SMS group (www.sms-group.com) as the primary technology supplier for its new 500,000 tons per year merchant bar mill. The new facility will be installed at its existing bar mill located in Bourbonnais, Illinois, with production scheduled to commence in 2019. This plant will be designed to …