International company plans $750 million modular housing factory in Georgia, hiring 1,400

Admares announced the plan for a factory in Waycross on Wednesday. The company plans to mass produce housing using heavily automated factories and says it’s in the process of relocating its headquarters to the United States. (Pixabay)

Finnish company Admares plans to invest $750 million to build a modular housing factory in the U.S. state of Georgia, hiring 1,400 people, officials announced Wednesday.

The company plans to mass produce housing using heavily automated factories. Admares, which was founded in Turku, Finland, said it’s in the process of relocating its headquarters to the United States.

The company said its factory in Waycross will be 2.5 million square feet (232,000 square meters), with production starting in late 2025. The company says it plans to build six such factories worldwide, each of which would produce 5,000 to 6,000 homes per year.