In a move to increase its productive capacity in the U.S., the giant GE Appliances company has announced that it is going to spend at least $3 billion both upgrading and expanding its factories.
The company said the effort will focus on its plants in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina, with a timeline for the work to take place between now and 2030.
GE Appliances, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the offspring of the giant General Electric company, which was founded in 1892 and soon specialized in stoves, motors, electric fans and generators.
General Electric has consistently been ranked among the Fortune 500 as one of the fifty top firms in the country.
In 2016 the Haier Group Corporation of Qingdao, Shandong in China acquired GE Appliances from General Electric for $5.6 billion. Since then, Haier has moved to modernize its productive facilities in the U.S., spending upwards of $3 billion in the process.
Earlier this year, the company announced its intention to spend around $500 million to enhance its washing machine production plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
The move to upgrade its factories, notes the Wall Street Journal, will make it possible for GE Appliances to “make new models of water heaters, air conditioners, gas ranges, and refrigerators.”
In announcing the plant upgrades, Kevin Nolan, chief executive officer of GE Appliances, said the effort is “part of our roadmap to grow American manufacturing product by product, state by state.”
Gas ranges that GE Appliances previously manufactured in Mexico, the company has also disclosed, will now be made in Georgia.
August 15, 2025
By Garry Boulard
