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GE Appliances Launches $3 Billion U.S. Reshoring and Modernization Plan

Shifting assembly to five Southern sites—Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina—marks the next phase of GE’s five-year drive to advance domestic production.

FILE - A General Electric washer sits inside a retailer, Sept. 15, 2023, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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Overview

  • Gas ranges will move from Mexico to LaFayette, Georgia, and six refrigerator models will shift from China to the Decatur, Alabama, plant.
  • Camden, South Carolina, will double its output and workforce by adding electric and hybrid heat pump water heater production previously based overseas.
  • Kentucky’s Appliance Park will begin producing combo washer/dryers and front-load washers under the first phase of the investment.
  • GE Appliances expects the $3 billion program to create over 1,000 jobs and modernize 11 U.S. manufacturing plants with automation and workforce training over five years.
  • CEO Kevin Nolan says the initiative is driven by lean manufacturing and customer proximity even as the Haier subsidiary maintains some overseas production contracts.