# Braidy Industries to build $1.3B aluminum mill in Kentucky

Braidy Industries announced a $1.3 billion aluminum mill in Greenup County, Kentucky, producing sheet and plate for automotive, aerospace and defense. Construction starts early 2018, completion in 2020, creating 550 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-03-31
- Where: Greenup County, Kentucky, United States
- Value: $1.30B
- Jobs: 550
- Starts operating: Q1 2018
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 370,000 tons of aluminum per year
- Products: aluminum sheet and plate
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Braidy Industries](https://endata.com/companies/23234.md)

## Sources

- [wymt.com](https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Report-Lawmakers-approve-15-million-mystery-project-for-Eastern-Kentucky-417793753.html), 2017-03-31: "Braidy Industries will build a $1.3 billion aluminum mill and create 550 advanced manufacturing jobs in Greenup County."
- [bizjournals.com](https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2017/04/26/metals-company-to-invest-1-3-billion-in-kentucky.html), 2017-04-26: "Braidy Industries Inc. has proposed the construction of a giant aluminum rolling mill in Greenup County."
- [thefabricator.com](https://www.thefabricator.com/thefabricator/news/metalsmaterials/braidy-industries-to-build-auto-body-sheet-aerospace-plate-aluminum-rolling-mill), 2017-04-27: "Braidy Industries Inc., in partnership with the state of Kentucky and the Ashland Alliance, will construct the nation’s first greenfield aluminum rolling mill in more than three decades."
- [asminternational.org](https://www.asminternational.org/ims/results/-/journal_content/56/10192/27351299/NEWS/), 2017-05-01: "Braidy Industries Inc., Ashland, Kentucky, announces that it will spend $1.3 billion to build an auto body sheet and aerospace plate aluminum rolling mill."
- [soar-ky.org](https://soar-ky.org/braidy-industries/), 2017-11-22: "Braidy's rolling mill seeks to become the nation's low-cost producer of high quality auto body sheet aluminum, plate and ultra-high strength alloys for the Aerospace industry."

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