🔋 Batteries · Liberty, North Carolina
Toyota: North Carolina battery plant
💰 $13.9 billion👷 5,100 jobs (up to)🏗️ Opened November 2025; ramping up through 2030Toyota's first North American battery plant, for hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs, in Randolph County.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: Office of NC Gov. Josh Stein, Nov 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
💾 Semiconductors · Siler City, North Carolina
Wolfspeed: Siler City silicon carbide plant
💰 $5 billion🏗️ Producing since 2025; the company restructured in 2025Grows silicon carbide crystals and makes 200mm wafers in Chatham County.
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Built by Whiting-Turner. Register with them as a subcontractor. Wolfspeed supplier information form →
Source: Wolfspeed facility page · checked Oct 25, 2026
🚀 Aerospace & defense · Greensboro, North Carolina
💰 $4.7 billion👷 14,500 jobs (planned over about a decade)🏗️ Broke ground June 2026; first assembly line targeted for 2029A factory for JetZero's blended-wing passenger jet at Piedmont Triad airport.
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Built by HITT Contracting (first phase). Register with them as a subcontractor.
Source: ENR, Jun 2026 · checked Oct 25, 2026
💊 Pharmaceuticals · Wilson, North Carolina
Johnson & Johnson: Wilson biologics campus
💰 $2 billion (more than, for the first plant)👷 420 jobs (first plant; a second plant announced in 2026 adds up to 500 more)🏗️ First plant under construction (operating around 2028); second plant announced January 2026Biologic medicines, with a second plant for cancer and neurology drugs.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits. J&J supplier inclusion →
Source: NC Commerce, Oct 2024 · checked Oct 25, 2026
💊 Pharmaceuticals · Durham, North Carolina
💰 $1 billion👷 400 jobs (nearly)🏗️ Operating since March 2025Vaccines, including Gardasil.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits. Merck: what we buy →
Source: Merck U.S. investment fact sheet, Apr 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🏭 Manufacturing · Lexington, North Carolina
Unnamed company ("Project Emerald"): Advanced manufacturing facility
💰 $1 billion (possible investment, per the city's incentive notice)👷 450 jobs (at least 450 full-time jobs paying above the Davidson County average, a condition of the incentives)🏗️ Proposed: Lexington City Council public hearing on incentives in November 2026; the company has not been named and Lexington is still in the runningA possible $1 billion advanced manufacturing plant in Lexington, NC, code-named Project Emerald. The city is weighing incentives that would require at least 450 jobs paying above the county average.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: Greensboro News & Record (also reported by Triad Business Journal) · checked Nov 7, 2026
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