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San Patricio County Judge David Krebs tells 3News that the new $1.7 billion Steel Dynamics electric arc furnace steelmaking plant being built in Sinton should be up and running by the Fall of 2021 https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/local/17-billion-dollar-steel-dynamics-plant-in-sinton-set-to-be-up-and-running-by-fall-2021/503-4f7e7421-5940-4dbd-9502-2dc0081d75f3

Not only is it going to provide hundreds of good paying jobs but it’s also going to supply the steel used in making Tesla’s Cybertruck

Right now Tesla is building a factory in Austin that will produce the Cybertruck

“Now some of these other companies who work with SDI will actually be taking SDI’s product and refining it a little bit better”

“We’re hearing that one of the companies will be taking SDI steel and further processing it and that steel will actually be going into the Tesla cars that they’re moving in from California to manufacture here,” said Judge Krebs

Steel Dynamics has a 2400-acre complex which is supposed to also house several other businesses who work with SDI in other cities

“There is a possibility that once that plant and everything else that’s going on out there is in operation . . . we are estimating from the numbers these people are giving me . . . there’s gonna be at least 3000 employees out there working in that area,” said Judge Krebs

The county judge says that if that turns out to be true then it should end up being a bigger project than the 10 billion-dollar Exxon plastics plant that is also under construction

Judge Krebs says he understands that the Exxon facility should also be open by next fall

“SDI could be bigger than Exxon/Mobil, you know, by the number of employees on that site,” said Judge Krebs

Judge Krebs says the economic benefit of the steel and plastics plants will result in much needed tax dollars rolling in

Money that’s going to come in handy as the county looks at turning the courthouse into strictly an administration building