{"id":56927,"date":"2026-04-07T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:10:41","slug":"rockwell-automation-files-zoning-applications-for-new-berlin-manufacturing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56927\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockwell Automation files zoning applications for New Berlin manufacturing plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockwell Automation has filed zoning applications to develop what the company is calling a state-of-the-art factory in New Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Milwaukee-based industrial automation company filed applications with the city related to its plans to build a new facility on 100 acres near South Moorland Road, between Grange and College Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret described the new facility as \u201cthe factory of the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            Understanding Wisconsin, Together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_description\">WPR\u2019s \u201cWisconsin Today\u201d newsletter keeps you connected to the state you love without feeling overwhelmed. No paywall. No agenda. No corporate filter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, the plant will use advanced automation, robotics and digital technologies. The facility will include approximately 1 million square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space, which could make it the company\u2019s largest manufacturing site in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose this location because Rockwell has had its headquarters in Southeastern Wisconsin for over a century and the area already has the highly skilled workforce and culture of innovation that\u2019s needed to bring this technology to life,\u201d Moret stated.<\/p>\n<p>Rockwell announced the project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/rockwell-automation-build-new-manufacturing-plant-southeast-wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">November 2025<\/a> and revealed that the new facility would be built in New Berlin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/rockwell-automation-selects-new-berlin-factory-of-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">during a February earnings call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new facility is part of a five-year, $2 billion investment to bolster domestic manufacturing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/money\/business\/2025\/08\/07\/rockwell-automation-spending-2-billion-to-boost-u-s-manufacturing\/85559439007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">company announced last year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Public Radio, \u00a9 Copyright 2026, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockwell Automation has filed zoning applications to develop what the company is calling a state-of-the-art factory in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,438,6334,190,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-56927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-business-development","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116365008965586437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}