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Posted on 11/20/2025 9:31:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
GE Appliances announced more than 150 million dollars in new contracts for U.S. based suppliers as part of its decision to shift key washer and dryer production from China to its massive Appliance Park complex in Louisville, Kentucky.
The new contracts range from 330,000 dollars to 41 million dollars each and cover critical inputs for clothes care production. According to the company, the supplier categories include plastics, castings, steel, aluminum and other core materials required to build its new lineup of washer and dryer units.
GE Appliances said the move increases its domestic supplier spending by 3.3 percent.
The reshoring effort covers:
All of these products will now be assembled in Louisville rather than China. GE Appliances is investing 490 million dollars to retool and upgrade the plant for the transition, creating 800 new jobs in the process. Production is scheduled to begin in early 2027 and will expand the facility’s clothes care footprint to the equivalent of 33 football fields.
Lee Lagomarcino, a company vice president, emphasized the broader national impact:
“When we invest in U.S. manufacturing and our people, it drives growth far beyond our own walls… These new supplier contracts represent what ‘Built for America’ is all about investing in U.S. manufacturing, creating more American jobs and building opportunity that multiplies.”
The timing aligns closely with President Donald Trump’s intensified push to bring production back to the United States through a combination of incentives and tariffs.
The administration recently announced it would reduce earlier fentanyl related tariffs on China from 20 percent to 10 percent, lowering the overall combined tariff rate to 47 percent. Even with that reduction, the policy environment remains firmly pro reshoring. Higher import costs have encouraged companies to reconsider the risks of foreign manufacturing and the benefits of domestic production.
However, GE Appliances says tariffs are only one part of the picture. Lagomarcino noted that domestic manufacturing also delivers practical advantages, explaining that shorter lead times, reduced transportation costs, and closer coordination with suppliers have been major considerations.
The new 150 million dollar annual contract commitments will support dozens of companies across the country. GE Appliances awarded contracts to suppliers in:
Kentucky suppliers received more than 40 million dollars in contracts, the most of any state.
Overall, GE Appliances says it now spends 4.6 billion dollars annually with more than 6,500 U.S. suppliers. That represents a 69 percent increase in domestic supplier spending and a 58 percent increase in the number of suppliers since 2019.
The company highlighted that its U.S. supply chain has been expanding for more than a decade, long before this latest announcement.
GE Appliances says the washer and dryer move is only the beginning of a broader manufacturing buildout. The company previously revealed a five year, 3 billion dollar plan to strengthen its U.S. operations, reshore additional product lines, and create more than 1,000 new American jobs.
In August, GE Appliances announced it would relocate refrigerator, gas range, and water heater production out of China and Mexico. The company already operates plants in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Connecticut and South Carolina.
Although GE Appliances is owned by China based Haier, the company continues to position itself as an American centric manufacturer investing heavily in U.S. facilities.
For investors, this reshoring campaign touches several important themes:
Domestic production often comes with higher labor costs, but it also reduces the risk of volatile shipping rates, supply disruptions and geopolitical tensions. Companies that control more of their production inside the country may command stronger pricing stability and lower long term operational risk.
Suppliers in steel, aluminum, plastics and metal fabrication stand to benefit directly. If sales of GE Appliances washers and dryers grow, contract values could rise.
New manufacturing jobs create local spending cycles, which can lift regional economies. Kentucky, which secured the largest piece of the supplier contracts, could see meaningful downstream economic benefits for years.
Reshoring is accelerating across multiple industries. Investors should evaluate which companies are reducing their reliance on overseas factories and which sectors may benefit from a multiyear buildout of domestic production capacity.
Under President Trump’s tariff framework, companies with strong U.S. manufacturing footprints may gain competitive advantages as import dependent firms face higher costs.
GE Appliances is laying the groundwork for a major manufacturing expansion in the United States. The shift of washer and dryer production from China to Kentucky, backed by more than 150 million dollars in supplier contracts and nearly half a billion dollars in plant upgrades, underscores how reshoring continues to reshape American industry.
For investors, this move is not simply about one company. It represents another data point in a broader economic realignment that favors domestic production, shorter supply chains, and strategic insulation from global shocks.
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President Trump is a genius. He’s the first POTUS in many of our lifetimes who puts America First!!
All of the reasons GE cited to reshore production to the USA existed when GE first decided to send appliance production to China. But they sent production to China anyway. It took GE 30 years to figure it out.
1. shorter lead times
2. reduced transportation costs
3. closer coordination with suppliers
4. reduced risk of volatile shipping rates
5. reduced risk of supply disruptions
6. reduced risk of geopolitical tensions
7. higher labor costs
High tariffs are new thanks to President Trump.
good. now stop making junk, GE, and return to your quality roots.
That’s only part of the problem:
Economy-wide, the freakin ‘green’ BS has basically abolished the used of PE and styrofoam packing material, leading to skyrocketing rates of shipping damage. Given their new awakening, I wonder if GE will abandon the green religion in favor of their products actually being delivered undamaged...
GM is also getting production out of China. They have notified their suppliers. It will take years.
Oh. Wait. This just in. Those losers did nothing to bring these jobs to Kentucky. Their perfect record of worthlessness remains intact.
Hopefully they'll have the decency to stay away from the ribbon cutting ceremony.
“GE Appliances is owned by China based Haier.”
That’s sad to hear.
Wishful thinking for quality built, simple design washers and dryers without fancy garage electronics that try to do too much and parts that aren’t redesigned every year?
That is a most awkward way to designate dollars in an English language article. The conventional way has always been:
The new contracts range from $330,000 to $41 million each...
No one spells out the word "dollars" after a numerical designation. Was this article created on a defective word processing system? If it wasn't, then why the hell is every way we normally do things in America suddenly being turned on its head? I've seen it before.
F'n idiots. Like this is some kind of generational way to spit in your face if you are pro-capitalist.
Nice solid move with broad implications for steady jobs.
yes. ones that last 20+ years like they used to, that you can hire someone to repair, and no internet of things surveillance, tracking your outrageous energy usage too.
In the meantime, I've seen advances in the use of wood products in packaging, which is a great thing toward putting money into forestry where it's badly needed.
I voted for this.
I’ve said for a long time that DC/K Street and Wall Street sold out Main Street for China for the last 30 years. This is a sign we’re reeling that crap in.
I replace my 3 year old LG refrigerator which kept breaking down with a GE refrigerator. So far it works fine with the exception of a circulating fan which keeps going off kilter and makes a racket. A sharp knock on the back wall of the freezer temporarily solves this issue. Next up, I will get a Samsung.
lol. we always try to go American. but that means buying used and fixing/restoring it myself.
for what it’s worth, when we’ve had to get something new, we’ve gone miele or bosche.
how long before the unions screw it all up?
General Electric sold the GE Appliances brand to “Haier”/China/CCP in 2016:
https://pressroom.geappliances.com/news/ge-completes-sale-of-appliances-business-to-haier
GE: the first and last letters of the word “GarbagE”
“ good. now stop making junk, GE, and return to your quality roots.”
Exactly my response! GE was a reliable brand long ago before moving to China and became the worse garbage you could buy. Perhaps quality will return to GE products but I won’t hold my breath because my guess is they will only be assembled in the USA with parts coming from China. That is a sneaky way to try and get around the tariffs.
Other brands like Maytag also try to give the impression that they are made in the USA when they are only ASSEMBLED in the USA with parts sourced from other counties like China.
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