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15
MARKETS AND MARKETING
Reinforcing products are essential to concrete construction. They supply tensile strength, as well as additional compressive strength,
and protect the concrete from cracking. Harris Steel bids on and executes a wide variety of construction work primarily classified as
infrastructure, including highways, bridges, reservoirs, utilities, hospitals, schools, airports and stadiums. Harris Steel is also active in
commercial office building and multi-tenant residential (high-rise) construction. In many markets, Harris Steel sells reinforcing products
on an installed basis; i.e., Harris Steel fabricates the reinforcing products for a specific application and performs installation. Harris
Steel operates over 70 fabrication facilities across the United States and Canada, with each facility serving a local market.
STEEL MESH, GRATING AND FASTENERS Nucor manufactures wire
products, grating and industrial fasteners.
STEEL MESH
Nucor produces mesh at Nucor Steel Connecticut, Inc. and Nucor Wire Products Utah, Inc. Nucor also produces mesh in Canada
at the Harris Steel operations of Laurel and Laurel-LEC. The combined annual production capacity of the steel mesh facilities is
approximately 128,000 tons. Our mesh facility at Nucor Wire Products Pennsylvania, Inc. was sold in 2012.
GRATING
Fisher & Ludlow, an operation of Harris Steel, fabricates steel and aluminum bar grating, safety grating and expanded metal products
at facilities located in North America. Fisher & Ludlow serves the new construction and maintenance-related markets with an annual
production capacity of approximately 103,000 tons.
FASTENERS
Nucor Fastener’s bolt-making facility in Indiana produces carbon and alloy steel hex head cap screws, hex bolts, structural bolts,
nuts and washers, finished hex nuts and custom-engineered fasteners. Nucor fasteners are used in a broad range of markets, including
demanding automotive, machine tool, farm implement, construction and military applications. Annual capacity is approximately
75,000 tons. Nucor Fastener obtains much of its steel from the Nucor bar mills.