Ron Dickerson, Nucor Steel; Steve Seamans, RR Donnelley; Bill Henderson , Montgomery County Economic Development; & Charlie Coons , Crawfordsville Mayor

Nucor Steel and the MidWest Indiana Economic Development Region hosted a FAM (Familiarization) tour at the company’s thin-slab cast flat rolled steel making facility in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Site selection firms and companies from around the region heard presentations by Nucor Steel and RR Donnelley prior to the facility tour.
Ron Dickerson, General Manager and Vice President of Nucor Steel, praised the community and the region for its business friendly climate and excellent workforce.
“Our employee relations and compensation system are built on fairness and incentive.  This region provides us with a world-class workforce ready to compete in the global economy.”
Steve Seamans vice President of RR Donnelley said,
 “The MidWest Indiana Region provides our company with a transportation network critical to the delivery of printed materials to our customers worldwide.”
Site selection consulting firms from around the region were invited to attend the tour and become familiar with Montgomery County and other potential regional sites for new companies. Firms from Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis attended the event with county economic development organizations and utility providers. The FAM Tour is a tool used by communities to increase awareness of their development sites and assets.
Bill Henderson, Executive Director of Montgomery County Economic Development (MCED) said,
“ The MidWest Indiana Economic Development Region is very grateful to Nucor Steel for hosting the facility tour,  Nucor is  a great corporate citizen and a perfect example of Advanced Manufacturing.”
Henderson also noted that county officials have just certified over 13,000 acres in the Nucor Steel Campus and Smartsburg I-74 interchange for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to attract new development.
The MidWest Economic Development partner counties are strengthening regional alliances and collaborating with Industry to assist them in creating new jobs and growth. 

     
About Nucor

As the first continuous thin-slab cast flat-rolled steel making facility in the world, our Crawfordsville, Indiana mill has an annual capacity of 2,200,000 tons of Hot-rolled, Cold-rolled and Galvanized products. We serve a broad range of Customers including service centers/processors, pipe and tube, construction, agricultural, electrical and others.  In addition to pioneering thin-slab casting, Nucor has developed next-generation technology called “thin-strip casting”- which is trademarked under the name Castrip®, at our Crawfordsville facility.

About MidWest Indiana Economic Development

The MidWest Indiana Economic Development Region includes the counties of Tippecanoe, Cass, Montgomery, White, Carroll, Fountain, Pulaski, Benton and Warren. Strategically located between Indianapolis and Chicago the area features an excellent international transportation network. Several of the world’s advanced manufacturing companies are located in the region supported by world-class education and research. Leading the state in Wind Power Generation this Smart Energy region has a long tradition of agricultural prosperity.

For more information, please visit: www.MidWestIndiana.com

Contact : Bill Henderson 

Phone: 765 362-6851  
email: BillHenderson@MCEDinc.com  

www.MCEDinc.com