# SEL opens $20M manufacturing plant in Purdue's Discovery Park District

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories opened SEL Purdue, a new 100,000-square-foot facility for electric power research, development and manufacturing in West Lafayette, Indiana, with the first product rolling off the line. The $20 million plant is expected to create 300 jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-02-19
- Where: West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- Value: $20.0M
- Jobs: 300
- Starts operating: 19 Feb 2020
- Status: completed
- Products: electric power relays, power system protection equipment
- Sectors: [Electrical Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/electrical-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories](https://endata.com/companies/45364.md)

## Sources

- [selinc.com](https://selinc.com/company/news/129916/), 2020-02-19: "After signing his name next to 30 others on the inside the metal door and then hanging it on the first relay box off the floor at SEL Purdue – a new, 100,000-square-foot facility for electric power research, development and manufacturing near campus – company founder Edmund Schweitzer wanted to know"

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