The transaction creates North America’s only customer-centric “Best of Both” steelmaker to combine world-competitive integrated and mini mill technologies.

Big River Steel plans to strike an arc at a second electric-arc furnace at its steel mill in Arkansas next month and produce its first commercial-grade coil for sale in November.

Shuttlesworth said that Big River is pushing forward with its plan to add a new 550,000-tpy Gen3 galvanizing line in Osceola, Arkansas by 2023. “We’re going through the final stages of putting the project plans together."

Big River chief executive David Stickler discussed with Argus his goals for the growing mill in Osceola, Arkansas.

Array Technologies and Big River Steel have announced a long-term relationship between the two companies in which Big River will serve as a consistent provider of high-quality steel products used in Array's industry-leading solar tracking equipment.

Big River Steel announced today it has entered into an agreement with U. S. Steel in which Big River will receive $700 million in cash in return for a minority ownership interest in its scrap recycling and steel production company.

Big River Steel has decided not to sell out despite receiving overtures from steelmakers and financial interests at home and abroad, the company's top executive said.

Big River Steel announced today that it is expanding its LEED-certified, Arkansas-based scrap recycling and steel production facility. The expansion will double Big River Steel’s hot-rolled steel production capacity to 3.3 million tons annually.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy invited government officials, technical experts in academia, heads of industrial research labs and business leaders to attend the "Artificial Intelligence for American Industry" summit.