Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

The Board of Directors of Steel Dynamics, Inc. (the "Company") recommended to Stockholders, and the Stockholders approved, at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 11, 2023, the Steel Dynamics, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2023 Plan"). The 2023 Plan is an equity incentive plan pursuant to which awards, including stock options, restricted stock awards, unrestricted stock awards, performance awards, stock appreciation rights awards, deferred stock unit awards, and restricted stock unit awards may be granted to Eligible Employees (including Eligible Executives) and Eligible Directors, individually or as part of a group, each as defined in the 2023 Plan. The 2023 Plan was adopted principally to serve as a successor plan to the Steel Dynamics, Inc. Amended and Restated 2015 Equity Incentive Plan. The 2023 Plan establishes a 9,000,000 fungible share reserve which will be available for awards under the 2023 Plan through its scheduled termination date of December 31, 2033. Certain types of awards, known as "full value" awards, such as restricted and unrestricted stock awards, performance awards, deferred stock units and restricted stock units, when granted will reduce the remaining unallocated share count by a predetermined factor of 2.09 for each full value share. Each share involved in the grant of stock options or stock appreciation rights will diminish the remaining share count on a share-by-share basis. All awards under the 2023 Plan are ultimately converted, if ever, into shares of the Company's common stock. The foregoing description of the 2023 Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 2023 Plan, which is filed as Exhibit 10.62 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

The Board of Directors of the Company recommended to Stockholders, and the Stockholders approved, at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 11, 2023, an Amendment to the Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to change the standard of election in uncontested elections of directors to a majority of votes cast. A new Article X is added to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Steel Dynamics, Inc. as follows:





                                   "ARTICLE X

                             ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

At each annual meeting of stockholders, the Directors to be elected at the meeting shall be chosen by the majority of the votes cast by the holders of outstanding shares entitled to vote in the election at the meeting, provided a quorum is present; provided, however, that if the number of nominees exceeds the number of Directors to be elected, then Directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast by the holders of outstanding shares entitled to vote in the election at the meeting, provided a quorum is present. For purposes of this Article X, a "majority of votes cast" shall mean that the number of votes cast "for" a Director's election exceeds the number of votes cast "against" that Director's election."

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Company held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 11, 2023. Of the 170,585,338 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of the record date on March 20, 2023, 154,443,328 shares were present, in person or by proxy, thus constituting a quorum of 90.54% of the total shares outstanding and entitled to vote.

At the meeting, stockholders elected all ten of the directors nominated by the Board of Directors, to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP independent registered public accounting firm as the Company's auditors for the year ending December 31, 2023; approved, by an advisory vote, named executive officer compensation for 2022; approved the Steel Dynamics, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan; and approved an Amendment to the Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to provide for election of directors by majority vote. In addition, the Board of Directors recommended, and stockholders selected, by an advisory vote, to have future advisory votes on named executive officer compensation on an annual basis. Considering such vote and consistent with the recommendation of the Company's Board of Directors, the Company will continue to include an advisory stockholder vote on the annual compensation of named executive officers each year. The Company will continue this practice until the stockholders' next vote on the frequency of such votes, at which time it will consider the results of that advisory vote.

Set forth below is the final share voting results for each of the proposals.

(1) Election of ten (10) director nominees for a one-year term.






Director                 Votes For    Votes Withheld   Broker Non-Votes
Mark D. Millett         133,094,112     10,984,753        10,364,463
Sheree L. Bargabos      142,265,043     1,813,822         10,364,463
Kenneth W. Cornew       135,643,580     8,435,285         10,364,463
Traci M. Dolan          138,991,856     5,087,009         10,364,463
James C. Marcuccilli    133,285,563     10,793,302        10,364,463
Bradley S. Seaman       121,494,195     22,584,670        10,364,463
Gabriel L. Shaheen      139,349,938     4,728,927         10,364,463
Luis M. Sierra          142,462,086     1,616,779         10,364,463
Steven A. Sonnenberg    137,766,307     6,312,558         10,364,463
Richard P. Teets, Jr.   141,977,008     2,101,857         10,364,463

(2) Proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP independent


     registered public accounting firm as the Company's auditors for the year
     ending December 31, 2023.



  Votes For        Votes Against       Abstentions      Broker Non-Votes
  143,867,094         10,187,090          389,144                   -

Proposal to recommend, by advisory vote, the frequency of future advisory

(3) votes on named executive officer compensation.






 Votes For Every       Votes For Every       Votes For Every                               Broker
  One (1) Year          Two (2) Years        Three (3) Years        Abstentions           Non-Votes
    137,192,395             355,758              6,418,362              112,350           10,364,463

Proposal to approve, by an advisory vote, named executive officer

(4) compensation for 2022.






  Votes For        Votes Against       Abstentions       Broker Non-Votes
  132,030,432         11,134,656          913,777            10,364,463

(5) Proposal to approve the Steel Dynamics, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan.






  Votes For        Votes Against       Abstentions       Broker Non-Votes
  135,607,592         7,917,656           553,617            10,364,463

(6) Proposal to approve an Amendment to the Company's Amended and Restated


      Articles of Incorporation to provide for election of directors by majority
      vote.




  Votes For        Votes Against       Abstentions       Broker Non-Votes
  143,866,510          141,177             71,178            10,364,463

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits





  (d ) Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed with this report:





  Exhibit Number Description




           3.1f           Amendment to Amended and Restated Articles of
                        Incorporation of Steel Dynamics, Inc.




           10.62          Steel Dynamics, Inc. 2023 Equity Incentive Plan, as
                        approved by stockholders on May 11, 2023, incorporated
                        herein by reference from our Notice of 2023 Annual
                        Meeting & Proxy Statement filed March 30, 2023.




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