GE Appliances is investing $1 billion to expand and reorganise production at its Appliance Park manufacturing complex in Louisville, Kentucky, in a major push to increase domestic appliance production and bring dryer manufacturing back from Mexico.

The investment will transform three buildings at the site and is expected to reinforce Appliance Park’s position as one of the largest home appliance manufacturing facilities in the US by production output, employment and footprint.

More than $400 million will be invested in Building 5, which will be converted from refrigerator production to a high-output dryer manufacturing facility. Refrigerator production is scheduled to end in early 2027, with dryer production expected to begin later that year.

The move represents a significant reshoring initiative, bringing high-volume dryer production from Mexico back to the United States. GE Appliances says employees will remain on the payroll during the nine-to-12-month conversion, with no layoffs planned as part of the transition.

A further $112 million will be invested in Building 1 to install new equipment and redesign existing washer and dryer manufacturing platforms.

The latest investment also incorporates a previously announced $490 million project in Building 2, where GE Appliances will begin producing front-load washing machines and washer-dryer combination products from 2027. The facility is being developed as a highly automated manufacturing operation incorporating robotics, automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots.

Focus on laundry manufacturing

The investment will consolidate GE Appliances’ laundry and dishwasher manufacturing operations at Appliance Park, bringing product design, engineering and manufacturing activities closer together.

GE Appliances President and CEO Kevin Nolan said the move would create greater synergies across the company’s cleaning products and strengthen connections between the teams responsible for designing, engineering and manufacturing appliances.

Once the transformation is complete, the company expects the investment to help secure approximately 4,700 production jobs at Appliance Park, with new and expanded manufacturing roles becoming available as production ramps up during 2027.

Part of wider US manufacturing strategy

The Louisville investment forms part of a broader $3 billion US manufacturing initiative announced by GE Appliances in 2025.

The company says it has committed $6.5 billion to US manufacturing since 2016, including more than $3.5 billion already invested in domestic operations.

GE Appliances was acquired by Haier in 2016, but has continued to invest heavily in its US manufacturing footprint. The latest announcement highlights the growing importance of reshoring and domestic production capacity within the global appliance industry.

For manufacturers facing supply-chain pressures, tariffs and increasing demand for regional production, the Louisville expansion represents another example of major appliance production being brought closer to the end market.