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GE Appliances makes refrigerators inside Building 5 at Louisville's Appliance Park manufacturing campus, July 19, 2021. Chris Otts / WDRB
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When a Chinese company became the owner, “Some feared this would be the end of GE Appliances … It was frankly the opposite. GE Appliances got a new life.”
The company employs more than 7,000 people in Louisville.
The company said “double-digit material inflation and a highly disrupted supply chain” led to the cuts. The reductions do not affect assembly line workers, who are the bulk of GE Appliances’ employees.
