{"id":215939,"date":"2025-06-14T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/robotics-manufacturer-moving-north-american-headquarters-from-illinois-to-wisconsin"},"modified":"2025-06-14T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:06:27","slug":"robotics-manufacturer-moving-north-american-headquarters-from-illinois-to-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/robotics-manufacturer-moving-north-american-headquarters-from-illinois-to-wisconsin","title":{"rendered":"Robotics manufacturer moving North American headquarters from Illinois to Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotics-manufacturer-moving-north-american-headquarters-from-illinois-to-wisconsin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the expansion, Yaskawa will begin manufacturing robots in Franklin. The company purchased a more than 200,000-square-foot building <a href=\"https:\/\/biztimes.com\/yaskawa-america-buys-former-transpak-building-in-franklin-for-20-million\/#:~:text=Manufacturing-, Yaskawa%20America%20buys%20former%20Transpak%20building%20in%20Franklin%20for%20$20,in%20Milwaukee%20and%20Southeast%20Wisconsin.\">in Franklin in 2023<\/a> for $20 million. The site was previously used by a packaging company.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is supporting the project with up to $18 million dollars in tax credits. Officials say the amount of credits awarded will be contingent upon hitting job creation and investment targets.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Gov. Tony Evers said the expansion would bring millions of dollars of investment and hundreds of \u201chigh-quality\u201d jobs to southeast Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the expansion, Yaskawa will begin manufacturing robots in Franklin. The company purchased a more than 200,000-square-foot building in Franklin in 2023 for $20 million. The site was previously used by a packaging company. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is supporting the project with up to $18 million dollars in tax credits. Officials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}