With an investment of HUF 54 billion (EUR 139 million), the world’s second largest LEGO factory has now been established in Nyíregyháza (northeastern Hungary), and this is the company’s only plant in Europe where all production processes are present, announced Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Tuesday at the site.
At the opening of the LEGO plant, the Minister announced that the Danish toy manufacturer had expanded its packaging and storage capacities, making the Nyíregyháza plant the second largest factory in the world. The government supported the development with HUF 4.3 billion (EUR 11 million), contributing to the creation of 300 new jobs.
In his speech, he emphasized that the company is the largest employer in the region with 4,300 employees, and will now be able to produce 30 percent more products in Hungary thanks to the developments. He emphasized that
the company’s sales revenue in Nyíregyháza exceeded HUF 100 billion (EUR 257 million) last year, setting a new record, and that next year the number of employees will reach 5,000, also a record high.
He also mentioned that LEGO has been continuously expanding its renewable energy sources for years, with 24,000 solar panels currently supporting the factory’s operations, and this number will soon increase to 35,000.
Minister Szijjártó reported that the record for Hungarian-Danish trade turnover was also broken in 2025, with exports to the Scandinavian country already growing by more than 15 percent this year. He pointed out that over the past ten years, the government has supported investments by seventeen Danish companies, resulting in investments worth HUF 230 billion (EUR 590 million) and creating approximately 4,500 jobs. He emphasized that LEGO has contributed greatly to the explosive growth of industrial production not only in Nyíregyháza, but also in the entire county of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, because the value of local industrial production has more than doubled in ten years.
The LEGO Group established its Hungarian manufacturing subsidiary, LEGO Manufacturing Kft., in Nyíregyháza in 2008. All important steps in the production of LEGO sets are carried out at the factory, including injection molding, decorating, assembly, packaging, and warehousing, writes the LEGO Group in a statement. They pointed out that
with the completion of the latest expansion phase, the size of the site has more than doubled since its handover in 2014, from 120,000 square meters to 262,000.
LEGO’s new factory unit in Nyíregyháza. Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
They emphasized that the LEGO Group’s goal is to reduce its fossil gas dependency and absolute carbon dioxide emissions by 37 percent by 2032, compared to 2019 levels. To achieve this, the company has been investigating how it could use geothermal energy to heat its factory in Nyíregyháza, thereby decoupling its heating systems from natural gas by 2028. Over the past two years, two wells have been drilled and a suitable heat source has been found underground. In the next two years, the infrastructure and technology necessary for circulating hot water will be installed at the factory. The closed system, in which the pumped water is returned to the extraction site, will be fully operational by 2028.
Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Szijjártó Péter
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