🏗️ Steel & metals · Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Hyundai Steel: Louisiana steel mill
💰 $5.8 billion👷 1,300 jobs (more than, direct)🏗️ Groundbreaking September 2026; production targeted for 2029An electric arc furnace mill making automotive sheet steel in Ascension Parish.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: Louisiana Economic Development, Mar 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🏭 Manufacturing · Plaquemine, Louisiana
Shintech: Plaquemine plant expansion
💰 $3.4 billion👷 163 jobs (new direct jobs; about 725 existing jobs kept)🏗️ Announced March 2026; first phase finishes in 2030Adds ethylene and chlor-alkali units to an existing PVC plant in Iberville Parish.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: Louisiana Economic Development, Mar 2026 · checked Oct 25, 2026
☀️ Energy · New Iberia, Louisiana
First Solar: Louisiana solar panel plant
💰 $1.1 billion👷 800 jobs (more than)🏗️ Operating since November 2025Thin-film solar panels, 3.5 gigawatts a year at full output.
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Built by Rudolph Libbe. Register with them as a subcontractor. First Solar supplier form →
Source: First Solar (Business Wire), Nov 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🏭 Manufacturing · Port Allen, Louisiana
ExxonMobil: Project Holly resin manufacturing plant
💰 $250 million (more than $250 million, per ExxonMobil (October 2026))👷 45 jobs (permanent jobs, plus roughly 600 construction jobs, per ExxonMobil)🏗️ Planned at the existing Port Allen Lubricants Plant; BIC Magazine reported construction estimated through December 2027A new plant at ExxonMobil's Port Allen Lubricants Plant in West Baton Rouge Parish to make Proxima high-performance resins, with raw-material storage, blending and packaging, a warehouse, a laboratory, rail and truck loading, and new roadways.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: Baton Rouge Business Report (Oct 26, 2026) · checked Nov 7, 2026
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