Image gallery: These are the largest factory facilities in the world
Rank 12: NASA. The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for NASA spacecraft is located at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is the tallest one-story building in the world. It is 160 meters high and was built in 1966 to construct the Apollo/Saturn V moon rocket. With 32,374 square meters, it houses the tenth largest production area in the world.NASA
Rank 11: Tesla Gigafactory 2.
Tesla's 111,500 square meter Gigafactory 2 is located in the state of New York. In 2017, Tesla took over the former steel plant to produce solar cells there. The one-story building is situated on a 35-hectare site on the Buffalo River. The cost was 935 million euros. (Image: Tesla)Tesla
Rank 10: Lauma Fabrics. The factory site of Lauma Fabrics in Latvia is 111,500 square meters large. Underwear is produced here.Luma Fabrics
Rank 9: Airbus plant. Jean-Luc Lagardère
The Airbus plant Jean-Luc Lagardère in Toulouse is 122,500 square meters large. With a capacity of 6.8 billion liters, the Jean-Luc Lagardère plant also houses a production facility for liquids and energy generation. (Image: Duch / Wikimedia Commons)Duch / Wikimedia Commons
Rank 8: Belvidere assembly plant.
The assembly plant was built by Chrysler, today it belongs to Stellantis. The 330,000 square meter factory site is located in the state of Illinois. It was built in 1965 to assemble Chrysler's C-platform vehicles. Today, 780 robots do the job.Hand-out
Rank 7: Boeing plant Everett. Just outside of Seattle (USA), Boeing manufactures the aircraft models Boeing 767, 747, 777, and 787 Dreamliner in the Everett Factory. The production site is 398,000 square meters large, making it the fifth largest factory in the world.Maurice King / Wikimedia Commons
Rank 6: Austal USA.
Austal USA is the American branch of the Australian shipyard of the same name. The production facility in Alabama is the largest factory of the company. It covers an area of approximately 467,000 square meters.Austral
Rank 5: Tesla factory in Fremont. Tesla's Gigafactory in Fremont, California, spans an area of 490,000 square meters. The Tesla models S, X, and 3 are manufactured here. Until 1982, the factory belonged to General Motors and was later taken over by Toyota before Tesla bought it in 2009.Tesla
Rank 4: Tesla Gigafactory Nevada.
In Nevada was Tesla's first gigafactory. The automaker produces the Model 3 and lithium-ion batteries there. The factory has an operational area of 490,000 square meters with a footprint of approximately 180,000 square meters.Tesla
Rank 3: Kia plant Hwaseong.
The Hwaseong factory in South Korea by Kia is 3.3 million square meters large. It was established in 1990 and is the largest factory of the automaker Kia. The company owns a total of 13 plants worldwide.Kia
Rank 2: Hyundai plant Ulsan.
The factory of Hyundai in Ulsan (South Korea) measures five million square kilometers. It is the main production site of the automaker. The site includes its own port, fire station, and hospital.Machineporn - Reddit
Rank 1: VW plant Wolfsburg. At its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen has a factory with a total operational area of 6.5 million square meters. Eleven car models are manufactured here. But another famous product is also made here: the Volkswagen currywurst. It is on the menu in all 30 canteens of the automaker on the site.Volkswagen