Where are the parent company’s manufacturing facilities located and what is their production capacity?
Executive summary
Available reporting identifies several recent and planned manufacturing sites operated by or tied to parent companies in sectors like solar panels, PV inverters, EVs and semiconductors — for example, a 144,000‑sq ft photovoltaic inverter plant in Waller County, Texas (TMEIC) and a planned 2 GW solar module assembly site in Albuquerque for Maxeon [1] [2]. Sources give facility locations and some capacity or size figures (square footage or GW), but they do not provide a comprehensive list of “the parent company’s” facilities or a single unified production‑capacity total; the specific parent company you mean is not named in the available materials (not found in current reporting).
1. What the sources actually name: facility locations and stated capacities
Reporting in IndustrySelect notes TMEIC Corporation Americas’ new 144,000‑square‑foot PV inverter manufacturing facility in Waller County, Texas, which began production in November 2024 and has produced utility‑scale inverters [1]. Maxeon’s press materials describe a five‑year lease on an Albuquerque building to begin solar panel manufacturing with a 2 GW module assembly capacity targeted to start in early 2026 [2]. Industry coverage also catalogs multiple new U.S. factories across 2024–2025—semiconductor, battery materials and other sites—with published square‑footage and headcount figures for several projects [3] [4] [5].
2. How capacity is reported — differing units and meanings
Notice how sources measure capacity: some use physical footprint (square feet), some give throughput in GW (solar module output), and some provide output targets over time (e.g., number of aircraft per month or annual targets) rather than instantaneous manufacturing capacity. For example, TMEIC’s facility is characterized by a 144,000‑sq ft footprint and units produced so far, while Maxeon’s Albuquerque plan is framed as a 2 GW annual module assembly capacity [1] [2]. That inconsistent metric mix complicates attempts to sum or compare capacities across companies and industries [1] [2].
3. Examples that illustrate scale and timelines
IndustrySelect and company releases highlight varied timelines and scaling plans: TMEIC began production in late 2024 and had already manufactured over 300 utility‑scale PV inverters by the time of the report [1]. Maxeon’s Albuquerque site is described as capable of “rapidly deploy[ing] a 2 GW module assembly facility” with production expected in early 2026, contingent on financing and longer‑term cell manufacturing plans [2]. Manufacturing Dive’s auto‑industry survey shows similar project pauses, prioritizations and multi‑year timelines for large EV plants — for instance Rivian re‑prioritizing Normal, Illinois production while planning Georgia construction to resume later [6].
4. What the sources do not provide (limits of reporting)
The documents do not define a single “parent company” for your question; they report on separate corporate projects across different publishers and press releases (not found in current reporting). None of the provided items give a consolidated inventory of every parent company’s global manufacturing sites or a unified production‑capacity aggregate that would let us answer “where are the parent company’s manufacturing facilities located and what is their production capacity” for an unspecified parent. There are also gaps on production ramp rates, utilization, and end‑market allocations beyond headline capacities and square footage [1] [2].
5. Competing perspectives and implicit agendas to consider
Press releases (e.g., Maxeon) emphasize strategic goals—domestic supply‑chain participation and rapid deployment—but include conditional language (financing, agreements in principle) that signals forward‑looking intent rather than guaranteed output [2]. IndustrySelect’s summaries aggregate many projects and sometimes present optimistic completion or job numbers drawn from company claims; independent verification or regulatory filings are not included in the excerpts [3] [1]. Manufacturing Dive frames project delays and funding decisions as industry trends [6], which can temper company optimism.
6. Practical next steps to get a definitive answer
If you can name the specific parent company you mean, I can search the supplied sources for direct citations of that company’s facility addresses and capacity figures. Otherwise, to build a complete capacity profile you’ll need: (a) the parent company’s own SEC filings or investor presentations (for audited capacity figures), (b) facility‑level permits or local economic development announcements (for addresses and footprint), and (c) industry analyses that normalize capacity units across product types — none of which are present in the current result set (not found in current reporting).