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August 22, 2025
Fabricator Merrill Steel building $32M+ facility in Arkansas
Written by Ethan Bernard
Steel fabricator Merrill Steel will invest over $32 million to construct a manufacturing facility Osceola, Ark.
The operation will create 108 new jobs over three years.
“The addition of the Osceola facility will perfectly complement our existing facilities, providing a high volume of quality fabricated and coated structural steel to our well-established client base,” Merrill Steel President Fred Schwalbach said in a statement.
Hiring for a range of positions in Osceola at the facility, the company’s first in Arkansas, is expected to begin in spring 2026.
Clint O’Neal, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, lauded the move.
“With this new investment, the steel industry in Mississippi County stands to grow even bigger,” he said. “The leadership in Osceola and Mississippi County has had a far-reaching vision for making this region a steel-producing hub, and this investment is the result of this vision.”
Note that Osceola is also the location of U.S. Steel’s Big River Steel operations, which have an annual raw steel capacity of ~3.3 million short tons (st).
Schofield, Wis.-based Merrill is a supplier of complex structural steel and heavy plate fabrication.
