August 27, 2025. MAHLE GmbH officials announced today the company is expanding its manufacturing operations in Morristown, Tennessee.
MAHLE will invest more than $10 million and create nearly 50 additional jobs, which will bring the company’s total headcount in Hamblen County to nearly 800 people. The company’s continued investment will allow MAHLE to start production of electric compressors used on fuel-cell electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and full electric vehicles.
Founded in 1920, MAHLE is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, and employs more than 67,000 people across the globe. Today, one in every two vehicles globally is equipped with MAHLE components.
Germany is one of Tennessee’s top partners for foreign direct investment (FDI). Across the Volunteer State, there are more than 115 German companies accounting for nearly 20,000 jobs and $7 billion in capital investment.
MAHLE is a leading international development partner and supplier to the automotive industry with customers in both passenger car and commercial vehicle sectors. The technology group is working on the climate-neutral mobility of tomorrow, with a focus on the strategic areas of electrification and thermal management as well as further technologies to reduce carbon emissions, such as fuel cells or highly efficient, clean combustion engines that also run on renewable fuels, such as hydrogen.
MAHLE generated sales of €11.7 billion in 2024. Employing just under 68,000 people at 135 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries.
