LEGO to Invest More Than $400 Million to Expand Monterrey Factory with Automated Warehouse and Packing Hall

# What happened

The LEGO Group announced a more-than-$400 million investment to expand its Monterrey, Mexico, manufacturing site. The project adds a new packing hall plus a fully automated high-bay warehouse. LEGO says construction will begin in early 2027 and finish in 2029.

# Scale and capacity

# Jobs and workforce impact

The Monterrey site currently employs about 7,300 people. LEGO plans to add about 1,300 positions during the expansion, bringing the total employment at the plant to roughly 8,600 by 2029. A prior expansion announced in 2023 and completed earlier in 2026 added 59,000 m2 and 900 jobs. Together with the new work, LEGO will have added 121,000 m2 of packing and warehousing space across the two projects.

# What the site does now

# Why LEGO says it's investing

LEGO frames the investment as a continuation of steady expansion at the Monterrey site since it opened in 2008. The company's chief operating officer, Carsten Rasmussen, described the project as positioning the company for long-term growth and helping meet demand for LEGO products in the Americas.

# How this fits into LEGO's broader Americas strategy

The Monterrey expansion is part of a wider effort to increase manufacturing and distribution capacity in the Americas. LEGO is also spending more than $1.5 billion on a factory and distribution center in Virginia, both scheduled to open in 2027. Together, these facilities are intended to give LEGO more room to manufacture and distribute products in the region.

# Timelines and unknowns

Known unknowns: the company has not released technical details about the automation systems planned for the high-bay warehouse or the split of capacity gains between the packing hall and the automated warehouse.

# Practical implications for supply chains and local economy

For supply-chain planners, the added automated warehousing and packing capacity should increase regional throughput and shorten lead times for products destined for the Americas once operational. For the local economy, the project adds a substantial number of jobs and continues a pattern of multi-phase expansion at the Monterrey site.

# Bottom line

LEGO is significantly enlarging its Monterrey manufacturing complex with a major investment focused on packing and automated warehousing. The expansion is large enough to lift production capacity materially and to increase local employment, while fitting into a multi-facility strategy to serve the Americas.