LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - GE Appliances announced Thursday that more than $150 million in new contracts have been awarded to U.S.-based suppliers across 10 states for steel, resins, parts and components.

The investment will be the catalyst for some changes locally, with the company’s new washer and combo washer/dryer plant being built at its Louisville headquarters.

These new supplier contracts are incremental to the $490 million investment to expand laundry production in Louisville that GE Appliances announced earlier this year.

The contracts are the first of many economic ripple effects from GE Appliances’ broader, five-year, $3 billion commitment to strengthen its U.S. manufacturing footprint, reshore certain production, and create more than 1,000 high-quality jobs across the co

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