CONTRIBUTED BY THE CITY OF OPELIKA

OPELIKA – One year after the start of production in Opelika, Miele, a family-owned manufacturer of premium household appliances with more than 125 years of history, has completed the phase one of their relocation plan. The facility is now exclusively producing built-in ovens and ranges for the markets in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

“Within one year we relocated six final assembly lines from Germany to our first U.S. facility in Opelika,” said Dr. Uwe Brunkhorst, senior vice president at Miele’s business unit Cooking. “Ahead of the planned relocation schedule, the team in Opelika is now producing 37 different models of built-in ovens and ranges.”

“To ensure the high-quality standard of Miele, we trained American employees in the Oelde plant in Germany,

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