Mayville Engineering Company has acquired a 138,000-square-foot industrial facility in Thomson and plans a phased Georgia expansion expected to support about 140 jobs and roughly $26 million in investment over the next several years.
Georgia officials announced the project Oct. 1, describing a metal-fabrication operation at 1048 Superior Way in McDuffie County. The company expects renovations and equipment installation to proceed in stages, with workforce expansion beginning in 2026.
The state said hiring will span management, administrative support, technical positions, machine operation, maintenance and quality control. The figures are forward-looking company and state projections, rather than jobs already filled or capital already spent.
An acquired plant shortens the startup path
In its investor announcement, Wisconsin-based MEC said the transaction closed Oct. 1 and placed total planned spending between $25 million and $30 million through 2028. That range includes the purchase price, facility improvements and production equipment.
The existing plant has e-coating and powder-coating lines, on-site wastewater treatment and environmental permits. MEC said it intends to retain the experienced workforce already at the property, then convert the operation into a broader fabrication-and-finishing site. Buying an operating facility, the company said, offers a faster and less capital-intensive route than constructing a plant from the ground up.
MEC expects the Thomson investment, once fully deployed, to add about $50 million in annual revenue capacity by 2028. The company linked the expansion to demand from data-center and critical-power customers, reporting a qualified opportunity pipeline above $125 million and about $90 million in new project awards during the first half of 2026.
Those business forecasts are not guaranteed orders. MEC’s announcement cautions that demand, trade policy, labor availability, material costs and execution risks could affect the expansion’s results and timing. No final construction-completion date or detailed hiring calendar was disclosed.
Why Thomson was selected
The Thomson location puts MEC near Augusta and within a Southeastern corridor where the company says current and prospective power-infrastructure customers are concentrated. It also adds Georgia as MEC’s tenth state of operation and extends the regional footprint created through its 2025 acquisition of Accu-Fab.
State economic-development officials said the project was recruited through a partnership involving the Georgia Department of Economic Development, McDuffie County’s development authority and Georgia Quick Start. The official announcement did not disclose a package value for incentives or workforce training.
WRDW reported that local leaders view the project as a validation of the county’s manufacturing workforce and infrastructure. An industry report similarly identified data-center and critical-power fabrication as a central purpose of the investment.
For McDuffie County, the practical measures of success will be the pace of hiring, how much of the planned capital is deployed, and whether the acquired plant reaches the additional production capacity MEC projects by 2028.
