January 9, 2024

The Green Steel Challenge Podcast

by Astrid Korf

Episode three focuses on Hybar, a new venture that aims to become the most cost-efficient and most environmentally sustainable rebar producer in North America. In 2023, Hybar raised $700 million to build and operate a scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill.

October 29, 2023

From Brawn to Brain

by Rex Nelson

"Across the street from the courthouse is the 1915 Coston Building. The ground floor once housed a barbershop and later a hardware store. J.T. Coston, a Vanderbilt-educated lawyer who represented cotton magnate R.E.L. Wilson, had his office upstairs. That office is being used these days for Hybar LLC, a startup company building a steel rebar mill at Osceola that will cost $700 million and employ about 200 people."

April 5, 2023

Hybar CEO Dave Stickler: Key to the future of Steel

by Matt Miller and John Tucker

Listen as Hybar CEO Dave Stickler discusses the difference between the steel market today and that of years prior, especially regarding sustainability and material choices. He also shares why he believes the key to the future of the steel industry is “lightweight and strong.”

December 14, 2022

Lower carbon a 'tie-breaker' in US rebar market: Stickler

by Rijuta Dey Bera

Steelmakers offering lower-carbon steel reinforcing bar (rebar) have a competitive advantage over traditional rebar producers, even if customers are unwilling to pay a premium for it in a price-sensitive market, according to David Stickler, senior managing partner of Global Principal Partners.

November 10, 2022

Highbar CEO Dave Stickler: Why Arkansas was chosen for $500M steel mill

by Corey Davis

Highbar LLC — which concentrates on sustainable scrap metal recycling and steel production — announced recently it is set to invest half-a-billion dollars and create 200 jobs near Osceola, Arkansas.

November 7, 2022

Interview: Stickler Sticks With Proven Model For New Highbar Minimill

by Laura Miller

Sticking with a business model that’s proven successful over the past three decades, David Stickler and his team at Global Principal Partners (GPP) hope to make their next endeavor with Highbar LLC’s two new rebar minimills another prosperous one.

May 25, 2022 

Arkansas Inc. Podcast: David Stickler

In this episode of the Arkansas Inc. Podcast, former Big River Steel CEO David Stickler discusses his background as a steel executive, the steel industry in Arkansas, and the recent U.S. Steel announcement in Osceola.

 February 20, 2020

U.S. Steel's Turnaround Plan Runs Through Big River Mill

United States Steel Corp. is betting its future on an efficient new mill along the Mississippi River, not far downstream from one of the old plants that have long defined its labor-intensive approach to steelmaking.

 August 31, 2019

Green Steel: How Arkansas Became Home to America's Cleanest and Fastest-Growing Steelmaker

Inside cavernous blue hangars set on 1,100 acres of what was once soy fields abutting the Mississippi River, a succession of 300-ton scrap-filled buckets—the steel remains of old cars and refrigerators—await their turn at the furnace.

 March 1, 2017

Big River Steel Begins Full-Time Production

Arkansas’ first and to date only industrial superproject is in full operation, and officials hope it may lure an auto manufacturer to The Natural State. Big River Steel announced Wednesday (March 1) its $1.3 billion mill outside of Osceola near the Mississippi River is complete. 

April 2017

MetalBulletin: Rebels Wanted

Big River Steel is out to challenge the status quo. The theme of its grand opening was ‘Rebels Wanted’. David Stickler, ceo, tells Michael Cowden about the latest in a series of international projects in which he has had a hand.

 September 25, 2017

The First LEED-Certified Steel Production Mill in the World

The Arkansas Delta conjures the backdrop of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the town of Osceola is the region’s quintessential landscape: soybean and cotton fields, the churn of the Lower Mississippi River beyond the levees, and wide-open miles between glimpses of one small town and the next.

 November 2, 2015

$200M Silicon Plant Opens in North Miss.

The first silicon metal manufacturing facility built in the U.S. in more than 40 years is now up and running in the North Mississippi town of Burnsville, a little more than 100 miles southeast of Memphis.

October 26, 2007

SeverCorr Reaches Production in Record Time

SeverCorr has started up complete production at its next-generation steel mill, just two years after breaking ground on vacant prairie land in Lowndes County, Miss. The facility, a partnership between SeverStal and a group of steel-industry veterans led by John Correnti, was built to serve the growing demand for high quality steel in the Southern United States.

 October 3, 2005

Investors' Group to Build Steel Mill

In a move that could boost competition among U.S. steelmakers, and potentially bring down prices, a group of investors is poised to announce the construction of an $880 million mill in Mississippi that would initially churn out 1.5 million tons of steel sheet a year.