# Who does Nucor Corporation pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/nucor · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-09-11T21:31:46.333016+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Nucor Corporation discloses no named confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties; 2 relationships are tracked as undisclosed/aggregate. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 2 dated sources, 0 of them primary filings (as of 2026-09-11).

### Southwest Data Products (high)
- metric: Amount $115M · acquisition completed April 2024 · Purchase price for Southwest Data Products
- note: Nucor acquired Southwest Data Products, a manufacturer and installer of data-center cabinets, cages, and airflow-containment structures, for $115 million. Nucor's 2025 Form 10-K and transaction announcement confirm both the target and price.
- [confirms] SEC EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-25) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/73309/000119312526071575/nue-20251231.htm: "In April 2024, Nucor acquired Southwest Data Products, Inc. (SWDP), a manufacturer and installer of data center infrastructure for $115 million."
- [confirms] Nucor (EN, ir, published 2024-04-01) https://nucor.com/news/?article=nucor-to-acquire-manufacturer-of-data-center-infrastructure-122554: "it has acquired Southwest Data Products, Inc. ... for $115 million"

### Danieli (mid)
- metric: Contract value $650M · orders announced 2022-04-07 · Minimum disclosed value of Danieli technology, equipment, and automation orders for two installations
- note: Nucor selected Danieli to supply cold-rolling, galvanizing, coating, and automation equipment for installations in West Virginia and Indiana. The disclosed multi-technology order exceeded $650 million.
- [confirms] Danieli USA (EN, news, published 2022-04-07) https://www.danieli-usa.com/en/news/nucor-corporation-endorses-danieli-orders-cold-strip-plants_13_714.htm: "multi-technology order valued in excess of US$ 650 million"

### NuScale Power (mid)  → /nuscale.md
- metric: Amount $15M · PIPE commitment announced 2022-04-06 · PIPE investment commitment for the NuScale-Spring Valley business combination
- note: Nucor committed $15 million to NuScale Power's pre-listing PIPE. The companies later agreed to study supplying Nucor's electric-arc furnace mills with power from NuScale small modular reactors.
- [confirms] Korea Energy Economics Institute (KO, research, published 2023-05-26) https://www.keei.re.kr/keei/download/nprd/WNPMI230526.pdf: "In April 2022, Nucor made a $15 million equity investment in NuScale."
- [confirms] NuScale Power (EN, ir, published 2022-04-06) https://www.nuscalepower.com/press-releases/2022/nuscale-and-spring-valley-announce-15-million-pipe-investment-from-nucor: "Nucor ... has committed to a $15 million private investment in public equity"

### SMS group (mid)
- note: SMS group supplied Nucor's Brandenburg plate mill with its caster, furnaces, heat-treatment line, and water-treatment system. It also provides long-term on-site repair services, with contract value undisclosed.
- [confirms] SMS group (EN, news, published 2024-01-15) https://live.cdn.cms.sms-group.com/SMS_group_website/DataStorage/08_PressReleases/2024/SMS_group_press_release_-_240115_-_Nucor_Steel_Brandenburg_-_EN.pdf: "SMS supplied the following key equipment for this facility"

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