GE Appliances and the IUE-CWA announced plans to update Appliance Park with a $1 billion investment and expand production of laundry products.
With new and expanded production across Buildings 1, 2 and 5, the investment will establish Appliance Park as America’s largest home appliance manufacturing site, the company said.
GE Appliances, which is owned by Chinese multinational Haier Group, said it will invest more than $400 million to turn Building 5 into a manufacturing operation for dryers, bringing production from Mexico to Kentucky. It also intends to invest approximately $112 million in Building 1 to add new equipment and redesign existing washer and dryer platforms, while continuing 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 operation, refrigeration production will conclude in Louisville in early 2027 and new dryer production will begin in late 2027. But GE Appliances said it will keep employees on payroll throughout the transition, with no layoffs associated with the retooling of Building 5.
GE Appliances will continue refrigerators in the United States at its Decatur, Alabama plant, which it called the largest refrigeration manufacturing operation in the U.S., and in Selmer, Tennessee.
