Whirlpool expands in Ohio

Whirlpool plans to spend more than $60 million to turn a vacant Perrysburg, Ohio, factory into a parts plant for washers and dryers, adding 100 to 150 jobs. (whirlpoolcorp.com) The company said on April 10 that the Perrysburg site will become its 11th factory in the United States and its sixth in Ohio. Whirlpool bought an existing building at 1775 Progress Drive, a former solar-panel plant, and said the build-out will take about two years. (perrysburgoh.gov) Whirlpool said the plant will make appliance components and subassemblies for laundry machines and supply nearby Whirlpool operations in Clyde and Marion. The company described Perrysburg as a “vital hub” for its domestic manufacturing network. (whirlpoolcorp.com; toledoblade.com) The Ohio project extends a larger push by Whirlpool to add laundry capacity in the state. In October 2025, the company announced a separate $300 million investment in Clyde and Marion that it said would create 400 to 600 jobs tied to next-generation washers and dryers. (jobsohio.com; whirlpoolcorp.com) Ohio officials have been positioning those Whirlpool projects as part of a broader manufacturing strategy. The Ohio Department of Development said in December 2025 that Whirlpool’s Clyde and Marion expansion was expected to create 448 full-time-equivalent jobs and more than $20 million in new annual payroll. (development.ohio.gov) The new Perrysburg factory also reuses a large industrial building instead of starting from bare ground. Local reporting identified the property as a 252,000-square-foot plant south of Roachton Road that had previously housed television-components and solar-panel production. (sent-trib.com) Whirlpool said about 80% of the major appliances it sells in the United States are made domestically, and that it spent $6 billion with U.S. suppliers last year. The company said state tax credits and JobsOhio assistance for the Perrysburg project were still pending final approval as of the announcement. (whirlpoolcorp.com) A formal ribbon-cutting is expected later in 2026. For now, the company’s Ohio expansion is moving from Clyde and Marion into Perrysburg, with the new site set to feed parts into Whirlpool’s existing laundry plants. (whirlpoolcorp.com)