Herr Masashi Mizobuchi, Generalkonsul von Japan in Chicago, kündigt zusammen mit dem Gouverneur von Illinois, JB Pritzker, eine neue fortschrittliche Produktions- und Forschungsanlage in Chicago an (24. Februar 2026)

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Mr. Mizobuchi starts speaking at 5:00 if you would like to skip to that.

Here is an article that you can read more about this news: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/pritzker-scores-win-japanese-manufacturer-expands-chicago

There is a paywall, however, so I will paste the text of the article below:

**A Japanese manufacturer of high-precision machine tools is expanding its business to Chicago, a win for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker**

*DMG MORI Federal Services Inc. is establishing a new advanced manufacturing and research facility in Chicago, expanding a business already headquartered in the suburb of Hoffman Estates, according to a statement from the Illinois Economic Development Corporation on Tuesday. The $41 million investment will create an additional 74 jobs.*

*Pritzker, who is widely seen as having presidential ambitions, has been trying to attract investments to the state. He has focused on new technologies, clean energy and advanced manufacturing as the US embarked on a push to bring back factories. The governor’s wins include a $2 billion investment from Chinese battery maker Gotion High-Tech Co. and a $1.5 billion commitment by Rivian Automotive Inc.
“One thing I’ve seen over the years is how the US has been left behind,” Jim Nudo, chairman of DMG MORI, said in an interview.*

*“We did it to ourselves. It was a self-inflicted wound that took place in the seventies and eighties. We’ve just been on the sidelines of the research and development and the high-end manufacturing of machine tools. You can’t make anything without products like ours.”*

*DMG MORI plans to retrofit an existing building on Chicago’s Goose Island. The project will include a 65,000-square-foot manufacturing facility and 25,000 square feet of office space and will that will serve as the company’s center of North American research and development operations.*

*The company plans to move into the space in the fourth quarter of this year and be fully operational for manufacturing in the first quarter of 2027. Nudo, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and spent the last 20 years in both Germany and Japan, said the expansion made sense in Illinois from a labor perspective, and the region’s strong history of manufacturing.*

*“Everybody thinks they can do manufacturing in new places or in a place where you can get cheap labor or no regulations,” he said. “But the reality is that you have to be somewhere where there’s been manufacturing in the past, there has to be a history and that core is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. It’s not a coincidence that where manufacturing was so strong for over a hundred years that it’s still where we have the basics to start again.”*

*DMG MORI, which employs about 200 people in Hoffman Estates, will get $3.9 million in incentives through the Illinois Economic Development for a Growing Economy, or EDGE program.*