Clothes dryers are still built in the USA, in big plants in Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Tennessee and by commercial makers in Massachusetts and Iowa, though some brands still bring part of their dryer line in from Mexico.
A dryer is mostly its steel cabinet and drum; its motor, gas valve and controls are often bought from abroad. Each listing is rated for the company's most American-made dryers and names what is known to come from elsewhere.
Ranked by Made in USA level, highest first; ties are in alphabetical order. The level measures how much is made in the USA, not product quality. How the levels work
American Dryer Corporation (ADC) makes commercial tumble dryers, stack dryers and drying equipment for laundromats, hotels, hospitals and industrial laundries. Founded in 1965 and a Whirlpool brand since 2015, it builds its dryers at its plant in Fall River, Massachusetts.
ADC's About page says, "Our Fall River, Massachusetts headquarters is home to a 300,000 sq ft manufacturing facility and a state-of-the-art engineering and design center." It makes no product-level made-in-USA claim; its owner Whirlpool says it uses "domestic and imported components" and that about 96% of its steel is American.
These are commercial dryers sold to laundromats and businesses, not home dryers. 2026 job postings for assemblers, brazers and welders at Fall River name its dryer lines, and its spec sheets describe powder-painted steel cabinets. Motors, gas valves and controls are likely imported.
Production history: ADC has built dryers in Fall River since 1965 and introduced the stack commercial dryer; Whirlpool bought it in 2015, and in 2023 recalled some ADC stacked dryers.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors, gas valves, controls) are about 20–40% of the value.
Level 4 for its commercial stack and single-pocket tumble dryers for laundromats and on-premise laundries: ADC builds its commercial dryers at its Fall River, Massachusetts plant; its owner Whirlpool says it uses imported components too.
Dexter Laundry makes commercial washers, washer-extractors, dryers and stack dryers for laundromats, apartment buildings, hotels and other businesses. Founded in Dexter, Iowa in 1894 and employee owned, it builds its machines in Fairfield, Iowa.
Dexter's home page says "Made In the USA," and its Who We Are page says, "we still call Fairfield home, and we manufacture all of our products at our facility here in the United States."
These are commercial machines sold to laundromats and businesses, not home dryers. A 2024 local report said Dexter "manufactures all its machines, from start to finish, in Fairfield" over three shifts. Where its motors and controls come from isn't stated.
Production history: Dexter began in Dexter, Iowa in 1894, moved to Fairfield in 1912, and has made laundry equipment there since; it is part of Employee Owned Brands.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors, controls) are about 15–35% of the value.
Level 4 for its Express and T-Series commercial dryers and stack dryers: Dexter builds its commercial dryers at its plant in Fairfield, Iowa; where its motors and controls come from isn't stated.
GE Appliances makes refrigerators, ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, dishwashers, washers and dryers under the GE, GE Profile, Café and Monogram names, plus water heaters and air conditioners. Owned by China's Haier since 2016 and based in Louisville, Kentucky, it builds most of its appliances at US plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina.
GE Appliances' "Produced in America" page says it "designs, engineers and proudly manufactures a wide assortment of appliances in the USA" at "11 American manufacturing plants and microfactories," naming plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Connecticut.
GE names dryers among the appliances it produces in the USA, and its Louisville Building 1 makes top-load washers and the matching dryers, but its "Produced in America" pages have no dryer section, and some dryers were still made in Mexico; GE plans to move that work to Louisville in late 2027. Product pages don't say which plant built a given dryer. Motors and controls are likely imported.
Production history: GE Appliances has built appliances at Appliance Park in Louisville since the 1950s; Haier bought it in 2016, and in 2025 it announced a $3 billion plan to bring more production, including gas ranges, front-load washers and dryers, back from Mexico and China.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors, controls) are about 25–40% of the value.
Level 4 for its standard dryers built at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky: GE Appliances builds dryers at Appliance Park in Louisville, but some still come from Mexico, it doesn't list dryers as produced in America, and its product pages don't say which plant built a given model.
LG Electronics, the Korean electronics company, builds front-load and top-load clothes dryers for the US market at its plant in Clarksville, Tennessee, which opened in 2018 and added a dryer line in 2022. LG also sells dryers made in other countries under the same name.
Made in: Clarksville, TN (parts stamped, molded and painted, and dryers assembled at its own plant). LG doesn't say which models are built there.
Imported:similar LG dryers made in other countries; LG says the country of manufacture is shown only on the carton and the machine's nameplate; motors and electronic controls, not named.
LG's own press release (1/18/2023, read on lg.com 11/7/2026): the Clarksville factory is "the U.S. production base for LG's ... washers and dryers," with three lines for front-load and top-load washing machines and dryers, capacity of 1.2 million washers and 600,000 dryers a year, and parts production including "metal press processing, plastic injection molding, and painting"; each line runs "from making the parts to assembly and packaging."
LG's product pages (lg.com, 11/7/2026) give no country of origin. An LG Customer Care answer on Best Buy says "the only way to know the Country of Manufacture/Country of Assembly" is the shipping carton or the nameplate, and that it can differ by distributor. Yonhap (6/2025): LG was considering shifting more washer and dryer production to Tennessee.
Production history: Clarksville began building washers at the end of 2018 and made its millionth in 2020; a dryer line started mass production in late 2022 (Korea Times, 1/2023). Assembly Magazine (4/2025): about 6,000 washers and 1,000 dryers a day, with a refrigerator line being added by late 2026.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors, controls) are about 25–40% of a Clarksville-built dryer's value.
Level 4 for its front-load and top-load dryers built in Clarksville: LG makes many of the parts and assembles the dryers in Tennessee, but it doesn't say which models are built there, and similar models are also made abroad.
Speed Queen makes home and commercial top-load and front-load washers and dryers known for their long warranties and simple, durable designs. Part of Alliance Laundry Systems, it has built laundry equipment in Ripon, Wisconsin for more than 110 years.
Speed Queen's product pages say, "For more than 110 years, Speed Queen has produced quality products right here in Ripon, Wisconsin," and its site says its consumer laundry products "are manufactured in Ripon, Wisconsin, and nowhere else."
Speed Queen's plant tour posts say rolled steel comes in one side of the Ripon plant, where it is cut, bent, welded, molded and coated before assembly and testing. Alliance's 2025 annual report says its US plants make its small-chassis washers and dryers and that it buys some components abroad; Speed Queen says some components are globally sourced. Motors and controls are likely imported.
Production history: Speed Queen has built washers in Ripon since 1908 and says it has "never produced home laundry equipment from anywhere else"; Alliance added a second Wisconsin plant in Manitowoc in 2019, and makes large commercial machines in the Czech Republic, Thailand and China.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors, controls) are about 15–35% of the value.
Level 4 for its DR and DC home electric and gas dryers: Speed Queen builds its home dryers in Ripon, Wisconsin from steel it cuts, welds and coats there; it says some components are sourced globally.
Staber Industries makes the HXW top-loading horizontal-axis washer and residential and commercial clothes drying cabinets. The family-owned company was founded in 1976 and builds its machines in Groveport, Ohio.
Staber's site says "Made in the USA" and that it has been "manufacturing state-of-the-art drying cabinets and washers in our world-class facilities" in Groveport, Ohio, where it moved from making transmissions and washing machines to "manufacturing the entire machine."
This is a drying cabinet, not a tumble dryer: clothes hang inside while a heater and fan dry them. Its spec sheet says "Made in the USA," and Staber cuts, welds and powder coats its steel cabinets in house. Where its heater, fan motor and touch controls come from isn't stated.
Production history: Bill Staber founded the company in 1976 in Groveport, where it has built its washers since the 1990s; it is still family owned.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (heater, fan motor, controls) are about 15–30% of the value.
Level 4 for its DCR-1000 residential clothes drying cabinet: Staber builds its DCR-1000 drying cabinet in Groveport, Ohio; where its heater, fan and controls come from isn't stated.
Whirlpool makes washers, dryers, refrigerators, ranges, wall ovens and dishwashers under the Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, JennAir and Amana names. Founded in 1911 and based in Benton Harbor, Michigan, it says about 80% of the major appliances it sells in the US come from its American factories.
Whirlpool's "Stayed in America" page says "Approximately 80% of the major appliances we sell in the U.S. come from our American factories" and "Approximately 96% of the steel we use is American," with the footnote "Domestic and imported components are used in the manufacturing of products."
Whirlpool lists Marion, Ohio as its dryer plant and in 2025 announced $300 million for Marion and its Clyde washer plant. Motors and controls are likely imported.
Production history: Whirlpool has built dryers in Marion for decades; the 2025 investment adds 400 to 600 jobs across the two Ohio laundry plants.
Our rough estimate: imported or likely imported parts (motors or compressors, controls) are about 15–25% of the value.
Level 4 for its Whirlpool and Maytag dryers built in Marion, Ohio: Whirlpool builds its dryers in Marion, Ohio from mostly American steel; its own label says it uses imported components too.
Check the model, not the brand. GE builds dryers in Louisville but still made some in Mexico as of 2025, and its product pages don't say which plant built a given model. LG builds dryers in Tennessee but also sells similar dryers made abroad; the country of manufacture is on the nameplate and the carton.
Motors and controls are often imported. Whirlpool's own label says it uses domestic and imported components; most makers don't say where their motors come from.
Commercial makers and a drying cabinet are listed too. ADC and Dexter build commercial dryers for laundromats and businesses, and Staber's listing is a drying cabinet, not a tumble dryer; each listing says so.
Each listing's research notes show what was checked and when, including our rough estimate of how much of the value is imported. Ratings are rechecked as companies answer.
Dryer makers by state
Iowa: Dexter Laundry (Fairfield)
Kentucky: GE Appliances (Louisville)
Massachusetts: American Dryer Corporation (Fall River)
1 maker was added:LG Electronics, which builds front-load and top-load dryers in Clarksville, Tennessee. LG also sells similar dryers made abroad, and its listing says so.
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6 makers of clothes dryers are listed, each checked for where it builds its dryers today and where it has built them over the years.
Every maker has a Made in USA level from 0 to 5, with the sources and research notes behind it. See how the levels work.
Listings checked by Dave Hurley.
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