Company Profile: Five Things You Didn’t Know about Nucor Corporation

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Nucor Corporation is a company that manufactures and sells steel products in the United States. The company is the largest steel manufacturer in the country. Each year, the company produces and sells more than 27 million tons of steel across the globe. Read on to find out a few things you didn’t know about this large corporation.

It’s an International Company

Despite the fact that Nucor is the biggest steel company in the country, it’s not just located in the United States. Nucor has offices in the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Europe, and it sells products in every country of the world. This is part of the reason the company is so successful.

There are a Lot of Employees

Nucor is one of the biggest employers in the country. With more than 20,000 employees located both domestically and internationally, it’s a large employer. Additionally, it’s a good employer. Employees are offered benefits packages that include health insurance and retirement options.

It’s a Southern Company

Nucor’s home base is not in the kind of large city you might expect of a company of this size. In fact, the company’s home base is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. While Charlotte certainly isn’t a small city, it’s also not one of the biggest in the country. However, it’s got several major companies as neighbors, including Duke Energy.

Nucor Has been in Trouble

In 1998, the company was ordered to pay more than $98 million in fines for not doing a good job in controlling the amount of pollutants being let into the air in 7 different states. When the ruling was made, it was the largest environmental settlement ever made with a steel company.

It’s Environmentally Friendly…Now

In 2000, a new CEO took over Nucor and added an environmental sector to the company as a way of ensuring that Nucor is not doing anything dangerous to the environment. Since Daniel Ralph DiMicco took over Nucor, the copmany’s pollution level has decreased by more than 65 percent.

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Written by Tiffany Raiford

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