Hitachi Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, on Sept. 15 announced plans for a new $528 million transformer manufacturing facility in Gallman, Mississippi.
"The Mississippi facility will be the cornerstone of Hitachi Energy’s around $1.5 billion U.S. manufacturing expansion program, the largest in the industry, increasing domestic production of transformers and other critical grid infrastructure to meet rapidly growing energy demand across the country," it said.
The new facility in Mississippi, Hitachi Energy’s largest single investment in the United States to date, "deepens a long-term commitment to American manufacturing rooted in more than a century of building and strengthening the U.S. power grid, a heritage spanning Westinghouse Electric, ABB Power Grids, and Hitachi," it said.
The new factory in Gallman will be approximately 6.5 miles from Hitachi Energy’s existing Crystal Springs facility. At over twice the size of the current plant, it will more than double capacity.
Construction is expected to begin late this year, with transformer production at the facility scheduled to start in 2029. Once the new factory is completed, transformer production will transition from Hitachi Energy’s existing Crystal Springs facility to Gallman.
In June, the company broke ground on a $457 million expansion of its large power transformer factory in South Boston, Virginia, which will be the nation’s largest of its kind.
Last August, Hitachi Energy announced a $106 million expansion in Alamo, Tennessee, that will increase production of critical transformer components and last year, the company announced a $70 million expansion of its facilities in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which focuses on the production of high-voltage equipment for the grid.
