Eaton breaks ground on $100 M manufacturing facility expansion
Eaton broke ground on a $100 million expansion of its Nacogdoches, Texas manufacturing facility, expected to address the ongoing transformer shortage in the US.
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USA, Pittsburgh: Eaton broke ground on a $100 million expansion of its Nacogdoches, Texas manufacturing facility, expected to address the ongoing transformer shortage in the US.
Intelligent power management company Eaton broke ground on a $100 million expansion of its Nacogdoches, Texas manufacturing facility. Announced in August, the project will double production capacity of Eaton voltage regulators and three-phase transformers to meet surging utility demand for solutions accelerating grid modernization.
“Utilities across the U.S. are modernizing critical infrastructure to accelerate a smarter grid and clean energy future,” said Guillaume Laur, Eaton senior vice president, Power Delivery and Regulation. “Our solutions are vital to make these projects a reality, and we’re making steady investments to support our utility customers.”
Eaton is adding 200,000-square-feet (18580 m2) to its Nacogdoches, Texas manufacturing facility, more than doubling its size. The company will continue to produce single-phase, pole-mount and pad-mount transformers in Texas to address the acute supply shortage for these products, something we have written about earlier this year. The expansion will create more than 200 skilled manufacturing jobs.
The Texas expansion frees up capacity at the company’s largest Wisconsin manufacturing facility in Waukesha, where Eaton is investing $22 million in equipment to increase manufacturing capacity of three-phase transformers for utility, data center, large commercial and industrial applications. Eaton will continue to produce regulators, including complex pole and substation voltage regulators, for utility customers in Wisconsin.
Source: Eaton
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