GE Appliances plans to invest $1 billion in a Kentucky factory that makes laundry appliances like washers and dryers, the company said Wednesday.
The plan would expand high-output production of laundry products, according to GE Appliances, which is a unit of the Haier corporation, and to the IUE-CWA union.
More specifically, GE Appliances plans to:
- Invest more than $400 million to transform Building 5 into a high-output manufacturing operation for dryers, bringing production from Mexico to Kentucky.
- Invest approximately $112 million in Building 1 to add new equipment and redesign existing washer and dryer platforms.
- Continue its previously announced $490 million investment in Building 2 to produce frontload washers and Combo washer/dryers that begin production in 2027.
To prepare Building 5 for its new manufacturing mission, refrigeration production would conclude in Louisville in early 2027 and new dryer production would begin in late 2027. After that transition, GE Appliances will continue making millions of refrigerators in the United States each year at its Decatur, Alabama plant, the largest refrigeration manufacturing operation in the U.S., and in Selmer, Tennessee.
Altogether, the approach will establish that Appliance Park facility as America’s largest home appliance manufacturing site, reflecting its scale across production output, employment and campus footprint, GE Appliances said.
