LED manufacturer Cree Inc. Durham, N.C., is purchasing a 592,000-square-foot facility in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China. The facility will be Cree’s first chip production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion. More than half of Cree’s employees work in China, mostly at the current Huizhou factory.

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