ABB will add 227 jobs and invest $50 million in Selmer as it relocates and expands its Industrial Connections and Solutions work in McNairy County, Gov. Bill Lee, Deputy Gov. and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and company officials announced Thursday.
The company will move off 4th Street into a new 120,000-square-foot building next to a recently finished 325,000-square-foot plant at the Selmer/McNairy Industrial Park. In the new building, Industrial Connections and Solutions will make and distribute busway and bus plug systems and other electrical products.
State officials said this is ABB's second expansion announced since 2025. Last year the company said it would invest $100 million and create more than 50 jobs with the larger plant. About 90 percent of the equipment and employees are to move into that finished building in the first half of 2027, with the rest moving into the new 120,000-square-foot facility in the second half of 2027.
After the latest announcement, ABB is expected to employ more than 1,500 people at five Tennessee sites. The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Lee said the investment will have a lasting impact on more than 200 families across Southwest Tennessee. McWhorter said one of the best measures of the state's economic development work is seeing companies already in Tennessee choose to expand, and he credited planning by leaders in Selmer and McNairy County, including earlier site development grants at the industrial park in 2022 and 2024.
Adrian Guggisberg, ABB's distribution solutions president, said the United States is a critical market for the company and that the project strengthens a local-for-local strategy. WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News also reported the announcement, describing the expansion as more than 200 jobs, in line with the official count of 227.
Sources: Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development; WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News