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   https://apnews.com/article/ge-appliances-investment-clothes-washers-china-   
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   LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — GE Appliances announced a nearly half-billion-   
   dollar project Thursday that it says will create 800 new jobs and shift   
   production of clothes washers from China to its massive manufacturing   
   complex in Kentucky.   
      
   The $490 million investment positions the Kentucky home appliances company   
   to rank as the biggest U.S. manufacturer of washing machines, it said.   
      
   “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,” CEO Kevin Nolan said. “This decision is our most   
   recent product reshoring and aligns with the current economic and policy   
   environment.”   
      
   The announcement comes as President Donald Trump attempts to lure   
   factories back to the United States by imposing import taxes — tariffs —   
   on foreign goods. He has slapped 10% tariffs on imports from most   
   countries and put 30% levies on Chinese goods. GE Appliances says nearly   
   all the steel used in its U.S. manufacturing for its appliances comes from   
   American steelmakers.   
      
   GE Appliances said the project will move production of a combo   
   washer/dryer and a lineup of front load washers from China to the   
   Bluegrass State. In all, production of more than 15 models of front load   
   washers will shift to the company’s sprawling Louisville production   
   complex — known as Appliance Park, it said. Once the added production is   
   in place, the total area devoted to clothes care production at the   
   Louisville complex will equal 33 football fields, it said.   
      
   Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who has criticized Trump’s tariffs,   
   hailed the company’s deepening commitment to the state.   
      
   “Today’s announcement brings more appliance manufacturing back to the   
   United States and solidifies Kentucky and Louisville as the global   
   headquarters of GE Appliances,” the governor said.   
      
      
   The redesigned factory will become its most advanced manufacturing plant   
   for clothes washing production, the company said, featuring the latest in   
   automation, robotics and material-handling technologies including   
   automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots.   
      
   The new manufacturing lines will open in 2027, the company said.   
      
   Next door at the complex’s Building 1, the company produces top load   
   washers and front load dryers.   
      
   GE Appliances handles product design and engineering work at its   
   Louisville headquarters but lacks overall production capacity to make all   
   of its products at its U.S. plants. So it contracts with other   
   manufacturers, including in China, for some of its production. The company   
   said its core business strategy is to base production in the United   
   States, and the investment announced Thursday is another step toward   
   achieving that goal.   
      
   “Manufacturing in Louisville puts production closer to our designers,   
   engineers and consumers so that together we can create our most innovative   
   laundry platforms,” said Lee Lagomarcino, vice president of clothes care   
   at GE Appliances.   
      
   The $490 million infusion into Appliance Park is the latest round of   
   investments in recent years as part of the company’s growth strategy. It   
   builds on the company’s previous investments of $3.5 billion in U.S.   
   manufacturing in the past decade, with more than one-third of the amount   
   going to Appliance Park.   
      
   Appliance Park in Louisville employs about 8,000 workers and is home to   
   five plants that produce washers, dryers, dishwashers and refrigerators as   
   well as parts and components. GE Appliances also has manufacturing plants   
   in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Connecticut.   
      
   GE Appliances is a subsidiary of the China-based Haier company.   
      
      
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