Factories in Texas
Texas has 21,034 manufacturing establishments employing 869,062 people (Census County Business Patterns, 2023), 7.0% of US manufacturing jobs and the 2nd most of any state. The largest industries by employment are fabricated metal products, food and vehicles, aircraft and parts. We track 61 new plant projects here, 4 under construction.
- Establishments
- 21,034
- Census 2023
- Manufacturing jobs
- 869,062
- Census 2023
- In EPA records
- 6,127
- Active, ECHO
- New plants
- 61
- 4 building
- Sheet
- TX
- Revised
- November 11, 2026
What is made in Texas
| Industry (NAICS subsector) | Establishments | Employees | In EPA records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabricated metal products 332 | 4,368 | 121,759 | 976 |
| Food 311 | 2,276 | 114,544 | 336 |
| Vehicles, aircraft and parts 336 | 747 | 90,747 | 311 |
| Chemicals 325 | 1,277 | 80,054 | 1,149 |
| Machinery 333 | 1,633 | 79,045 | 479 |
| Computers and electronics 334 | 838 | 68,332 | 222 |
| Plastics and rubber 326 | 780 | 51,348 | 354 |
| Glass, cement and stone 327 | 1,486 | 39,919 | 892 |
| Medical devices and other goods 339 | 1,704 | 31,970 | 197 |
| Wood products 321 | 767 | 30,091 | 184 |
| Petroleum and coal products 324 | 212 | 24,114 | 293 |
| Furniture 337 | 862 | 23,124 | 79 |
| Primary metals 331 | 252 | 22,390 | 216 |
| Printing 323 | 1,669 | 21,781 | 139 |
| Electrical equipment and appliances 335 | 420 | 19,004 | 119 |
| Beverages and tobacco 312 | 686 | 17,868 | 51 |
| Paper 322 | 226 | 15,619 | 91 |
| Textile products 314 | 427 | 5,641 | 8 |
| Apparel 315 | 212 | 5,241 | 7 |
| Leather goods 316 | 111 | 4,506 | 12 |
| Textile mills 313 | 81 | 1,965 | 12 |
Establishments and employees: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, mid-March employment. * Census flags this figure as having high noise. "In EPA records" counts active facilities in EPA's ECHO database, a subset that excludes plants EPA doesn't regulate.
New plants in Texas
| Project | Industry | Status | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amarillo Hispanic cheese and foods plantCacique, LLC, Amarillo | Food and beverage | Under construction | $88M187 jobs |
| Houston API facility, Generation ParkEli Lilly and Company, Houston | Pharmaceuticals | Under construction | $6.5B615 jobs |
| Abilene cheese packaging plantGreat Lakes Cheese, Abilene | Food and beverage | Under construction | $185M500 jobs |
| G2_Austin solar cell fabT1 Energy Inc., Rockdale | Solar | Under construction | $850M1,800 jobs |
| Sugar Land optical chip and transceiver plant expansionApplied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI), Sugar Land | Semiconductors | Announced | $279M500 jobs |
| Pharr semiconductor assembly plant expansionAvant Technology, Inc., Pharr | Electronics | Announced | $20M250 jobs |
| Fort Worth FLRAA aircraft manufacturing centerBell Textron Inc., Fort Worth | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $429M400 jobs |
| Hutto advanced manufacturing and operations campusBlue Origin Manufacturing LLC, Hutto | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $555M2,000 jobs |
| Houston (Generation Park) drug manufacturing campusBristol Myers Squibb, Houston | Pharmaceuticals | Announced | $2.3B500 jobs |
| Mesquite solar module factoryCanadian Solar Inc., Mesquite | Solar | Announced | $250M1,500 jobs |
| Jacksonville heat transfer products plantCancoil USA, Jacksonville | Appliances and HVAC | Announced | $28M120 jobs |
| Bryan roofing plantCertainTeed LLC (Saint-Gobain), Bryan | Building materials | Announced | $140M130 jobs |
| Bee Cave satellite and payload manufacturing facility and HQCesiumAstro, Bee Cave | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $500M500 jobs |
| Sherman indium phosphide wafer fab expansionCoherent Corp., Sherman | Semiconductors | Announced | $154Mjobs not stated |
| Richardson aerospace manufacturing and R&D expansionCollins Aerospace (RTX), Richardson | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $57M570 jobs |
| Mansfield window and door plant and regional HQCrystal Window and Door Systems, Mansfield | Building materials | Announced | $121M504 jobs |
| Galveston and Port Arthur shipbuilding expansionDavie Defense Inc., Galveston | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $730M2,400 jobs |
| Longview molecular recycling facility (expansion)Eastman Chemical Company, Longview | Chemicals | Announced | $1.2B200 jobs |
| Nacogdoches transformer and voltage regulator plant expansionEaton (Cooper Power Systems LLC), Nacogdoches | Electrical equipment | Announced | $100M218 jobs |
| Farmers Branch probe card manufacturing facilityFormFactor Inc., Farmers Branch | Semiconductors | Announced | $140M600 jobs |
| College Station commercial biomanufacturing facility (expansion)FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, College Station | Pharmaceuticals | Announced | $300M150 jobs |
| Arlington Assembly expansion for future full-size SUVsGeneral Motors, Arlington | Vehicles | Announced | $500Mjobs not stated |
| Golden Triangle Polymers integrated polymers facilityGolden Triangle Polymers (Chevron Phillips Chemical 51% / QatarEnergy 49%), Orange | Chemicals | Announced | $8.5B500 jobs |
| Brooks San Antonio switchgear plant (expansion)Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM), San Antonio | Electrical equipment | Announced | $200M3,000 jobs |
| Allen compound semiconductor wafer production facilityIntelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc. (IntelliEPI), Allen | Semiconductors | Announced | $41Mjobs not stated |
| San Antonio construction equipment plantJCB, Inc., San Antonio | Other manufacturing | Announced | $265M1,500 jobs |
| New Braunfels blow molding plantLefko USA Inc., New Braunfels | Plastics and packaging | Announced | $15M149 jobs |
| McKinney AI power solutions manufacturing campus (expansion)Lite-On, Inc. (LITEON), McKinney | Electrical equipment | Announced | $919M600 jobs |
| Austin high-purity quartz parts plantLTD Material LLC, Austin | Semiconductors | Announced | $25M40 jobs |
| Northlake 10X rare earth magnet campus (expansion)MP Materials Corp., Northlake | Steel and metals | Announced | $1.3B1,500 jobs |
| Plano biomanufacturing facilityNTxBio, Plano | Pharmaceuticals | Announced | $31M170 jobs |
| Amarillo beef processing plantProducer Owned Beef, LLC, Amarillo | Food and beverage | Announced | $670M1,500 jobs |
| Port Alpha autonomous vessel shipyardSaronic Technologies, Inc., Brownsville | Aerospace and defense | Announced | $3.2B10,000 jobs |
| El Paso electrical equipment plant expansionSchneider Electric USA, Inc., El Paso | Electrical equipment | Announced | —300 jobs |
| Georgetown semiconductor components plant expansionSchunk Xycarb Technology Inc., Georgetown | Semiconductors | Announced | $42M25 jobs |
| Temple superalloy and specialty metals plantSeAH Changwon Integrated Special Steel (SeAH Group), Temple | Steel and metals | Announced | $110M100 jobs |
| Sealy roofing membrane plant expansionSika Corporation, Sealy | Building materials | Announced | $90M60 jobs |
| Taylor high-purity phosphoric acid plantSoulbrain RASA TX LLC, Taylor | Chemicals | Announced | $120M20 jobs |
| Terafab semiconductor fab at Gibbons CreekSpaceX (TeraFab AI, LLC), Iola | Semiconductors | Announced | $17B3,000 jobs |
| Houston-area ethanol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel plantSummit Next Gen, LLC, Houston | Chemicals | Announced | $1.6Bjobs not stated |
| Round Rock photomask plant expansionTekscend Photomask Round Rock Inc., Round Rock | Semiconductors | Announced | $223M50 jobs |
| Richardson RFAB 300mm wafer fab expansionTexas Instruments, Richardson | Semiconductors | Announced | $700Mjobs not stated |
| Lockhart frozen dessert plantThe Ziegenfelder Company, Lockhart | Food and beverage | Announced | $29M100 jobs |
| Waller County manufacturing expansionTMEIC Corporation Americas, Waller County | Electrical equipment | Announced | $65M62 jobs |
| San Antonio drivetrain parts building expansionToyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, San Antonio | Vehicles | Announced | $531M400 jobs |
| San Antonio second assembly line expansion (Tacoma)Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, San Antonio | Vehicles | Announced | $3.6B2,000 jobs |
| Orange building materials plant (former paper mill site)USG Corporation, Orange | Building materials | Announced | $1.2B200 jobs |
| Vinton steel mini-mill expansionVinton Steel, LLC (Kyoei Steel), Vinton | Steel and metals | Announced | $229M180 jobs |
| Cresson composite fibre technologies plantWagners CFT, LLC (Wagners Holding), Cresson | Building materials | Announced | —304 jobs |
| Lubbock silicon carbide foundry expansionX-FAB Texas, Inc. (X-FAB Silicon Foundries), Lubbock | Semiconductors | Announced | —150 jobs |
| Houston AI server factoryApple, Houston | Electronics | Operating | —jobs not stated |
| Sherman 300mm wafer plantGlobalWafers America, Sherman | Semiconductors | Operating | $3.5B1,500 jobs |
| Waco coated recycled paperboard (CRB) millGraphic Packaging International, Waco | Paper | Operating | $1.0B230 jobs |
| McGregor fiberglass insulation plantKnauf Insulation, McGregor | Building materials | Operating(reported) | $210M151 jobs |
| Lubbock cheese and dairy plantLeprino Foods, Lubbock | Food and beverage | Operating | $870M600 jobs |
| Taylor fabSamsung Electronics, Taylor | Semiconductors | Operating(reported) | $17B2,000 jobs |
| Fort Worth electrical equipment plantSiemens, Fort Worth | Electrical equipment | Operating | $190M800 jobs |
| Texas Lithium RefineryTesla, Inc., Robstown | Batteries | Operating(reported) | —jobs not stated |
| SM1 (Sherman 300mm fabs)Texas Instruments, Sherman | Semiconductors | Operating | $30B3,000 jobs |
| Brookshire solar module and cell plantWaaree Solar Americas (Waaree Energies), Brookshire | Solar | Operating | $1.0B1,500 jobs |
| Fort Worth AI superchip systems manufacturing plantWistron, Fort Worth | Electronics | Operating | —1,000 jobs |
Factory pages in Texas
132 Texas factories have their own page so far: the facilities that report to EPA's Toxics Release Inventory and hold the most detailed federal records. See all 132, grouped by industry.
Questions
What is made in Texas?
Texas has 21,034 manufacturing establishments employing 869,062 people (Census County Business Patterns, 2023), 7.0% of US manufacturing jobs and the 2nd most of any state. The largest industries by employment are fabricated metal products, food and vehicles, aircraft and parts.
How many manufacturers are in Texas?
21,034 manufacturing establishments (Census, 2023). EPA's ECHO database lists 6,127 active manufacturing facilities in Texas that it regulates, 2,610 of which report to the Toxics Release Inventory.
Are new factories being built in Texas?
We track 61 large plant projects in Texas announced since 2021: 4 under construction, 46 announced, 11 operating.
Can you tour a factory in Texas?
Yes: Balcones Distillery Tour, Blue Bell Creameries Visitor Center (Brenham), Bureau of Engraving and Printing Tour (Fort Worth), Garrison Brothers Distillery Tour and 3 more.