GREENVILLE, OH—Whirlpool Corp. will expand its Factory Distribution Center here, which ships KitchenAid small appliances worldwide. The project will nearly double the space at the facility, to 650,000 square feet.

BENTON HARBOR, MI—Whirlpool Corp. plans to invest $14 million to build wind turbines at its assembly plants in Marion and Ottawa, OH.

Imagine the U.S. Department of Energy establishes aggressive new energy-efficiency standards for your product. As a result, you spend millions on R&D to meet the challenge.

OTTAWA, OH—Whirlpool executives thanked employees at the company’s appliance assembly plant here for their efforts in improving the facility.

GREENVILLE, OH—Whirlpool’s assembly plant here, which produces about 1.5 million Kitchen Aid mixers and blenders annually, is expanding and bringing some jobs from China. The plant has hired 70 people this summer, and plant leaders expect to hire another 50 in about a week.

BENTON HARBOR, MI—Whirlpool is set to officially open its new office campus here. The $70 million project is a part of a larger plan to consolidate 15 facilities into three centralized office campuses.

BENTON HARBOR, MI—The Commerce Department has ruled that Whirlpool Corp. and other U.S. appliance assemblers are being harmed by competitors importing certain refrigerators from South Korea and Mexico. The department found that Samsung, LG, Electrolux and other brands were illegally “dumping” some of their foreign-made appliances in the United States by selling the products at less than fair value.