“The site will employ more than 1,700 people in molding, processing and packing machinery once completed.”
Lego is spending $1 billion on a 1.7 million-square-foot plant in Virginia, its second in North America after Monterrey. The press release leads with solar panels. The real reasons are in the next paragraph: closer markets, a shorter supply chain and faster response to demand. Lego is building where the customers are and calling it climate policy.