Way cool! Juggernaut 40 miles from Houston

​​​​WALLER – Just under 40 miles away from Houston’s core, an economic juggernaut is quietly settling into its multimillion-sf manufacturing hub.​

Nearly 1,000 employees have moved into Daikin Industries Ltd.’s new industrial plant.

The Japanese air-conditioning giant’s 4.1 million-sf manufacturing plant, dubbed the Daikin Texas Technology Park, will eventually employ upward of 4,000 workers.

The industrial plant cost $417 million to develop, and overall, it is at roughly 25 percent operating capacity.

The facility is expected to deliver $3.9 billion in annual economic impact for the Houston region, create 4,600 direct jobs and more than 11,000 indirect or induced jobs, per Business Facilities, a national trade publication.​