The Husqvarna Group has decided to close its Nashville Arkansas plant.
The decision was put forth in the companies Interim Report for Quarter 2 of 2023:
Strategic acceleration
As announced in October 2022, Husqvarna Group is accelerating its strategic transformation towards the value creation areas of robotic mowers, battery,
watering and professional solutions. This includes incremental investments that will reach SEK 400m per year by 2025. In order to fund these investments and increase organizational efficiency, structural changes are being implemented, which will deliver annual cost savings of approximately SEK 800m by 2025. The Group proactively exits business of SEK 2bn of petrolpowered, low-margin consumer products, primarily wheeled products.Accordingly the Orangeburg, U.S., manufacturing plant is being rightsized. Furthermore,
in line with the strategy, the global manufacturing footprint is being consolidated, with the discontinuing of the handheld production facility in Nashville, AR, U.S. The production is moved to other facilities within the Group, primarily Sao Carlos in Brazil.The Nashville plant employs around 700 area workers.