- Nucor (NYSE:NUE) says it is suspending operations at its Berkeley, S.C., sheet mill and Hertford, N.C., plate mill ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence.
- Berkeley, located near Charleston, is NUE's largest sheet mill with a production capacity of more than 3M st/year, and Hertford has a capacity of nearly 1M st/year of plate.
- Announcements are expected from Brazil-based Gerdau (NYSE:GGB), which operates mills and scrap processing facilities in North Carolina, Virginia and New Jersey; Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC), which operates rebar mills and scrap processing facilities in North and South Carolina; and Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD), which also operates a bar mill in Virginia in addition to scrap processing facilities in the state through its Omnisource subsidiary.