Carolina Heavy Steel Establishes Operations in Dorchester County

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (September 9, 2026) – Dorchester County Economic Development announced today that Carolina Heavy Steel LLC is establishing operations in Ridgeville, representing an investment of $15 million and the creation of up to 50 new jobs in the county’s growing industrial sector.

Located at 1002 Research Center Drive, Carolina Heavy Steel is a new heavy steel processing, fabrication and coating operation serving customers in the commercial, government and power generation industries. The company’s integrated capabilities include CNC plasma cutting, machining, precision sawing, forming and rolling, fabrication and welding, abrasive blasting and industrial coating.

Rather than limiting its operations to a single stage of steel production, Carolina Heavy Steel is designed to take projects from raw steel plate through processing, forming, fabrication and finishing under one roof. The facility’s equipment includes a 10-foot-by-40-foot CNC plasma cutting table, automatic vertical band saw, plate rolling and tandem press-brake systems, hydraulic bending equipment, a large-component abrasive blast booth and a 20-foot-by-20-foot-by-60-foot industrial paint booth.

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