Wells Lighting, a Korea-based light manufacturer, will locate its first North American headquarters in Millen, Ga.
The company announced Monday it will spend $30 million to build its new facility and add more than 200 jobs over the next two years.
Wells Lighting, established in 2008 in Jeollabuk-do, Korea, produces general lighting/streetlights, industrial lighting, solar street lights and smart control system lights. The company will locate to an existing 92,000-square-foot building, which will house the company's headquarters operations, R&D initiatives and manufacturing operations for its new LED lighting production line.
"After much consideration, Georgia was the ideal place for us to locate our U.S. operations," Dae Woo Kim, the company's CEO, said in a statement Monday. "As the demand for our product continues to grow, we are confident that we can best meet our customers with our U.S. operations in Jenkins County."
The state of Georgia has had a continuous representation in Korea since 1985, and the nation was one of Georgia's top three investor nations last year.
"The state of Georgia has long valued our relationship with Korea, a partnership that has paid dividends for both Koreans and for Georgians," Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said.