Power management company Eaton is opening a new assembly plant in Santiago de los Caballeros to meet growing customer demand for its fuses. This is the company’s fifth manufacturing site in the Dominican Republic.
The project will increase supplies of Eaton’s Bussmann series fuses, which provide critical safety functionality in electric vehicles (EVs), renewable and energy storage projects, and other industrial applications. Production at the new facility is expected to begin in 2024.
Eaton’s new location in Santiago is part of the company’s investment in North American manufacturing. In 2023, Eaton announced nearly $750M in investments to increase manufacturing capacity for electrical assemblies, including EV charging technology, transformers, voltage regulators, switchgear, switchboards, circuit breakers, as well as underground protective connectors for the electric grid.
Overall demand for Eaton’s electrical solutions has been growing amid the biggest changes to energy systems in over a century as the world shifts to more sustainable energy supplies, transportation electrifies, and the growth of cloud-based technologies booms.
The new 65,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art assembly plant in the Santiago province is expected to create approximately 300 manufacturing jobs.
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