On October 22, 2020, Ambassador Martin Weiss and Economic Counselor Georg Lack visited the new state-of-the-art particleboard EGGER manufacturing plant in Lexington, North Carolina. The impressive facility is the company’s 20th worldwide and its first manufacturing plant in the US. It started production in September 2020 and will, at full build-out, involve an investment of approximately 700 million USD creating an estimated 770 jobs. 

Helping To Revive The Furniture-Making Center of America
The facility contributes to the regional economy through the purchase of wood byproducts from sawmills in and around the state, and through work with a range of local suppliers for additional services. The new EGGER plant in North Carolina is one of the biggest Austrian investments ever made in  the US. During the visit EGGER presented its innovative products and advanced production technologies as well as its substantial investments in skilled workforce through tailor-made training programmes.