WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Nucor wasn’t a household name in West Virginia, but that all changed in January when the company announced it would build a new sheet mill at Apple Grove, along the Ohio River about 25 miles north of Huntington.
“Everyone in the state is talking about Nucor now,” said Maribeth Anderson, director of government relations for Antero Resources, at the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s annual business summit at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs on Wednesday.
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