State officials salute Nucor’s 50th anniversary
From Staff Reports
A slate of South Carolina elected officials, including the governor and lieutenant governor, came to Darlington County June 26 to honor Nucor Steel’s 50th anniversary in the county.
Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette with Nucor official Doyle Hopper, in an image from Evette’s Facebook page.
Gov. Henry McMaster, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, Florence Sen. Hugh Leatherman, Rep. Robert Williams and House Speaker Jay Lucas were among the 500 or so people who turned out for the festivities near the Dovesville community.
McMaster said, “Nucor Steel’s 50 years of doing business at the Darlington steel mill has been marked by great team members and the kind of innovation that changes entire industries.”
The governor said Nucor is “an integral part of the very fabric of our state. … This is a fine business, a fine facility. People take care of each other here.”
Operations at Nucor’s first steel mill, in Darlington County, began in 1969.
Today, Charlotte-based Nucor employs about 25,000 people and is the biggest steel producer in the United States. The company is known as North America’s largest recycler; it recycled 16.9 million tons of scrap in 2015.
Editor’s note: The News & Press can only offer this abbreviated version of the Nucor anniversary event because the newspaper was not notified in advance that the event was taking place and so could not cover the celebration. Nucor officials could not offer an immediate explanation of why the newspaper did not receive word.