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Wisconsin Governor Tony Es on Friday announced
Yasawa America Inc.
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will invest some $180 million to expand its
footprint in the Badger State,
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including a new location for its North American
headquarters that will create more than 700 new
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jobs.
The company plans to expand its current
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facility in Franklin, Wisconsin, about 15 miles
southwest of Milwaukee and a little more than
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40 miles north of the company’s current
operations in Waukegan,
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Illinois.
The project is expected to be completed in the
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next 8 to 10 years.
Bow is consolidated.
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its Illinois and Wisconsin facilities into a
new 800,000 square foot campus that will
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include the headquarters, training, and lab
building, manufacturing and packaging
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facilities, as well as robotics and
semiconductor production operations.
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According to the company, it is experiencing
significant growth driven by its robotics,
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motion control, AC drives, and solar inverter
businesses.
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Yawa America makes industrial robots, motion
control products,
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low and medium voltage AC drives, and solar
inverters for several industries.
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The expansion will help.
The company began making robots in Wisconsin
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that will be shipped directly to customers or
integrated into production lines at the
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company’s Ohio facility.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
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is supporting the project with up to $18
million in performance-based enterprise zone
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tax credits contingent upon the number of jobs
created and the amount of capital investment
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during that period.
The company’s global parent,
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Isawa Electric Corporation, has been in
business for some 1110 years.
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The company has operated in the US for nearly
60 years.
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I’m Nola Mastein.
This is manufacturing now.