Lego plans to build a factory in the United States.

Hoping to shorten the provision chain for its widespread constructing units, the toymaker Lego mentioned on Wednesday that it was planning to take a position $1 billion in a brand new manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County, Va.

The 1.7 million-square-foot plant, scheduled to start out producing plastic bricks by the second half of 2025, is anticipated to create greater than 1,760 jobs over 10 years, Lego mentioned in an announcement.

The location in Virginia was chosen partially for its entry to the nation’s transportation networks, Niels B. Christiansen, the Lego Group chief government, mentioned within the assertion. “We’re eager to make Lego bricks within the U.S., one in every of our largest markets,” he added.

The Virginia manufacturing facility will probably be Lego’s seventh on the earth, and its second within the Americas. Lego additionally mentioned that it deliberate to develop its website in Monterrey, in northeastern Mexico, which makes merchandise primarily for the U.S. market. In December, the corporate introduced plans to construct a manufacturing facility in Vietnam.

“Our factories are positioned near our largest markets, which shortens the space our merchandise need to journey,” Carsten Rasmussen, the corporate’s chief working officer, mentioned within the assertion.

The corporate has excessive sustainability ambitions for the plant, which will probably be carbon impartial, due to a photo voltaic park that Lego plans to construct on the positioning. When accomplished, the photo voltaic amenities will generate practically all the power wanted to run the plant, the corporate mentioned.

Lego, which relies in Billund, Denmark, reported large beneficial properties through the pandemic as shoppers turned to its constructing units for leisure throughout and after lockdowns. In March, it reported that its income jumped 27 p.c in 2021 to $55.3 billion Danish krone, or about $8.06 billion, up from $43.7 billion Danish krone, or about $6.36 billion, the earlier 12 months.

The corporate employs about 2,600 folks in america, together with at its U.S. headquarters in Enfield, Conn., the house of the primary Lego manufacturing facility in america, which produced greater than 100,000 units a day earlier than closing in 2007.