LEGO Group, whose LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, attracts hundreds of
thousands every year, continues to move forward with a manufacturing project in
Virginia, and announced an expansion in Hungary last week.
Photo courtesy of LEGO Group
Friday, October 6, is Manufacturing Day 2023. Over the nearly 70 years Site Selection
has been in publication, documenting the evolution of manufacturing has been intrinsic to
our mission. Here are a few recent examples of the thousands of stories catalogued in our
archives that feature the voices of manufacturing leaders:
In “Why LEGO Chose Virginia,” from that same
November issue last year, Henrik Priess Sorensen, head of Americas Expansion and
Discovery for LEGO Group, told Ron Starner why the company was investing $1 billion in
a new complex in Virginia.
Executives from Oregon-based ENTEK in May 2023 told us why Indiana makes sense for a
$1.5 billion project to make separators for lithium batteries, in “ENTEK Finds a Home in Terre Haute.”
In “The Northern Pull of Production,” May 2023,
Scott Balaguer, vice president of global business development for Rochester-based
Edwards Vacuum, explains why semiconductor manufacturing is coming back to the
Northeast U.S.
Texas Instruments in that same issue shared insights into an $11 billion investment in
Utah in “Tech Springs to Life in Lehi.”
Illinois
Department of Community and Economic Opportunity Director Kristin
Richards shares insights into how the state has improved its business
appeal.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a go-to resource for nuclear power
research.
Photo courtesy of ORNL
At last week’s Roadmaps to New Nuclear conference in Paris, organized by the French
Ministry for Energy Transition and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the energy
ministers of 20 countries agreed on a joint communiqué in which they highlight the
need for nuclear energy to meet global energy challenges. “Nuclear energy is already a key
part of the pathways to net zero in many countries, and it can play a much larger role,
both through the continued operation of existing installations and the large-scale
construction of new nuclear power plants,” said an NEA release. NEA projections show that
in order to successfully achieve net zero by 2050, “nuclear energy capacity will need to
at least double and potentially triple compared to today.” The U.S. has the largest
nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors supplying nearly 20% of the country’s
electricity.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention
Authority
The Gene Leahy Mall, which opened to the public in July 2022, is part of the RiverFront
project in Omaha, Nebraska, which “combines three parks in the heart of downtown Omaha
into one identity.” Heartland of America Park and Lewis & Clark Landing opened in August
2023. For the Nebraska Spotlight in the November 2023 issue of Site Selection, Senior
Editor Gary Daughters is speaking with Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert and major philanthropists
behind the project.
