LG Electronics has surpassed cumulative production of 10 million washing machines, dryers and related laundry appliances at its Clarksville, Tennessee, plant, reinforcing the facility’s role in the company’s U.S. market leadership. Built in 2018 on a 1.25 million-square-meter site, the plant has received about $500 million in investment and now has annual capacity of 2.25 million units, including 1.55 million washing machines and 700,000 dryers. LG’s U.S. market shares in washing machines and dryers rose from 17.2% and 17.4%, respectively, before the plant opened to 23.3% and 24.1% last year. The site has also been designated a World Economic Forum Lighthouse Factory and is being developed as a test bed for physical AI, with more than 300 industrial robots, digital-twin systems and a 70% automation rate. LG recently began proof-of-concept testing of its humanoid robot CLOiD in manufacturing operations and plans to use plant data to train robots through a data facility in Korea.