U. S. Steel announces capital investment projects in Alabama

United States Steel Corp., based in Pittsburgh, has announced two capital investment projects valued at a total of $277.5 million.

The first capital project is the construction of an electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking facility at its Fairfield Works in Birmingham, Ala. The company will invest $230 million to construct the EAF at Fairfield Works in place of the facility's existing blast furnace.

The company also will construct a $47.5 million tubular products coupling facility at Fairfield Works to manufacture couplings with premium, semipremium, and API connections for the oil and gas industries. The facility will feature four coupling cells to manufacture couplings for the company’s premium connections for customers in the energy industry.

The construction project will create about 650 temporary construction jobs over the course of both projects. Construction of the EAF is expected to be complete in Q3 2016. The coupling facility is expected to be completed in Q1 2016.