GE Appliances, a Haier company, said the company will invest $3 billion in the next five years to ramp up U.S. production.
Included in the investment is $490 million in Louisville, Kentucky, to make combo washer/dryers used in the RV industry.
The Louisville project will bring GE Profile UltraFast Combo Washer/Dryer and the GE/GE Profile UltraFresh Front Load Washer production to Kentucky. The investment will create 800 new full-time jobs.
The GE Profile UltraFast Combo Washer/Dryer is a ventless two-in-one appliance. The company said its ventless heat pump technology saves energy. The washer/dryer fits into smaller spaces than traditionally required for side-by-side or stackable machines.
GE Appliances President and CEO Kevin Nolan said Building 2 at Appliance Park will make more than 15 models.
“We are bringing laundry production to our global headquarters in Louisville because manufacturing in the U.S. is fundamental to our ‘zero-distance’ business strategy to make appliances as close as possible to our customers and consumers,” he said. “This decision is our most recent product reshoring and aligns with the current economic and policy environment.
Top-load washers and front-load dryers are made in Building 1.
Building 2 will be redesigned to showcase the latest in automation, robotics and material-handling technologies, including Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR). GE Appliances said the plant is vertically integrated and will include in-house manufacturing of critical parts such as stainless-steel baskets and cabinets, high-precision metal stamping and forming, and injection-molding and production equipment. The new manufacturing lines will open in 2027.
The company said it will expand its air conditioning and water heating portfolio, increase production output across all product lines, and further modernize its 11 U.S. manufacturing plants with new automation and capital equipment.
The $3 billion announcement marks the second-largest investment in GE Appliances’ history, surpassed only by the creation of Appliance Park in the 1950s.
