US Steel buys $700M stake in Arkansas-based Big River Steel

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – United States Steel Corporation is buying a minority stake in an Arkansas-based steel company for $700 million.

Big River Steel of Osceola announced Tuesday it had entered into an agreement with the Pittsburgh-based steel company. Under the agreement, U.S. Steel will hold a 49.9 percent ownership interest in Big River Steel and will hold an option to acquire the remaining 50.1 percent within the next four years.

Big River Steel began operations at its $1.3 billion mill in Osceola in 2017 and last year announced an expansion of the facility that will add 500 new jobs. The plant was Arkansas’ first “superproject” under a 2004 constitutional amendment that allowed the state to borrow money to help lure major employers.

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