LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 22, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In 1953, GE Appliances shipped its first appliance – a dryer – from its Appliance Park campus in Louisville, Kentucky. Over the past 70 years, Louisville has been the largest manufacturing site, research and development center and the hub for innovations that shape how American families live.
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The first “sign” of the coming of Appliance Park was a billboard located on the farmland running parallel to Shepherdsville Road in 1950. (Photo: Elfun Historical Society, 1987, A Walk Through the Park)
“For seven decades, Appliance Park has been a pioneer in the home appliance industry,” said Kevin Nolan, president and CEO of GE Appliances, a Haier company. “Here in Louisville, GE Appliances invents and builds products…