Foxconn invests in Kentucky

Foxconn Technology USA said on Dec. 9, 2025, that it will spend $173 million on a Louisville factory, its first manufacturing operation in the United States. (newkentuckyhome.ky.gov) Kentucky said the project will create 180 full-time jobs, and the state’s incentive agreement ties support to a $173.6 million investment and 10 years of job targets. (kentucky.gov) The plant is slated to open in the third quarter of 2026 with a production system that Foxconn and state officials said will use artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digital factory controls. (newkentuckyhome.ky.gov) Local reporting said Foxconn will retrofit a 350,000-square-foot building near Louisville’s Riverport industrial park, and Mayor Craig Greenberg said the company has not publicly identified the product it will make there. (whas11.com) Foxconn is best known as a contract manufacturer for electronics brands, including Apple, Sony and Vizio, so the Louisville site adds an electronics supplier with a different profile than Kentucky’s traditional auto-heavy factory base. (whas11.com) That matters in a state where Toyota’s Georgetown complex remains the largest vehicle plant in the company’s global network, with 2025 capacity figures of 444,414 vehicles assembled and 787,063 engines assembled. (pressroom.toyota.com) Toyota has also been shifting its Kentucky operations toward newer manufacturing systems: in May 2023, the company said Georgetown would build Toyota’s first battery electric vehicle assembled in the United States as part of a $591 million project. (ced.ky.gov) State officials and Foxconn framed the Louisville move as part of supply-chain changes and a push to build more advanced manufacturing capacity in the United States. Foxconn Chief Executive Ben Liaw said the company sees the site as part of its long-term U.S. talent and manufacturing strategy. (newkentuckyhome.ky.gov) The announcement also arrives with baggage from Foxconn’s earlier U.S. expansion attempt in Wisconsin, where a far larger project fell short of its original promises. Greenberg told WHAS11 that Louisville’s incentive structure and the smaller scale of this deal make the Kentucky project different. (whas11.com) If Foxconn hits its schedule, Louisville joins Kentucky’s manufacturing map in the second half of 2026 with a new electronics plant just as the state’s biggest auto operations keep adding electric and hybrid work. (newkentuckyhome.ky.gov)