In a first look of the factory’s transformation, GE Appliances and Roper unveiled some of the results of the company’s $118 million investment, including new assembly lines, presses, and robotics.

GE Appliances (GEA), a Haier company, and its wholly owned subsidiary Roper Corporation today joined with state and local officials to celebrate 50 ye ...

GE Appliances recently completed a $180 million investment at the plant in LaFayette, which has grown from a pre-COVID workforce of about 1,800 employees to approximately 2,500.

A re-shoring wave from a Chinese-owned enhancing its “made-in-America” bona fides is bringing more jobs and investment to a ...

General Electric Co. and Whirlpool Corp. carved up Roper Corp. Friday, with GE paying $54 a share for the appliance firm and Whirlpool agreeing to drop its bid. The agreement ends a month-long ...

LAFAYETTE, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Roper Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GE Appliances, we believe in the value and spirit of community.As our world and community have rapidly changed ...

GE Appliances' Roper oven plant in LaFayette, Georgia, has become the company's largest single manufacturing facility, and officials plan to hire up to 150 more people to meet surging demand.

The agreement is in return for the $118 million in capital investments from Roper and for providing 646 new jobs. It authorizes bonds for financing abatement of ad valorem taxes from 2023 until 2032.

Roper started as a pump and home appliances maker in the 1890s and got listed in 1992. In August 2020, it acquired insurance software maker Vertafore for $5.35 billion, ...