GOING GREENWhirlpool’s new Cleveland plant is seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold status.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. – U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson said Tuesday that Whirlpool Corp.’s new $200 million plant here is an example of American manufacturing making a comeback.
“American competitiveness and innovation are full-steam ahead,” Bryson told a group of Whirlpool workers, officials and others before cutting a ribbon to mark the plant’s opening.
Bryson, who toured the 1 million-square-foot facility off Benton Pike, said the plant that makes ovens and stoves has “the wow factor.”
Officials for Michigan-based Whirlpool call the factory the world’s largest premium cooking products plant. Whirlpool employs 1,500 people in Bradley County and plans to bring on about 130 more to the plant that will replace its existing Cleveland site by mid-2013.