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TOPEKA: Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in its largest city to build a huge new factory, but the project won't go forward without funds the U.S. government has promised for rebuilding the nation's chip-making capacity.
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday that Kansas has an agreement with Integra Technologies<\/a>, based in Wichita, for a 10-year package of tax breaks and reimbursement of expenses. State officials said the new, $1.8 billion plant would cover 1 million square feet, have 2,000 employees and create 3,000 additional jobs among suppliers and other local businesses.
The announcement comes with the U.S. trying to reverse a loss of capacity for making the chips that are vital to smartphones, laptops and other modern-day conveniences, as well as automobiles and life-saving medical devices<\/a>. Congress last year approved<\/a> a measure that provides more than $52 billion in grants and other incentives for the semiconductor industry<\/a>.
Kelly told reporters during a Statehouse news conference that the state's incentives are crucial to attracting the federal funds and \"making Kansas an essential part of our country's national security efforts.\"
\"This advanced manufacturing facility is part of a national push to restore our semiconductor industry so that U.S. workers and businesses can compete and win in the race for the 21st Century,\" Kelly said.
Integra CEO Brett Robinson would not say how much federal funding the company needs, only that there is \"no commercially viable way\" to do the project without it. He and state officials said other states were trying to attract the project, though they did not disclose the competitors.
\"It's not just critical to the United States and to security, but it's critical to the supply chain,\" said Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican.
President Joe Biden pushed Congress last year to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry, because of a shortage of chips<\/a> made worse by the global coronavirus pandemic and concerns about competing with international<\/a> rivals, particularly China. There's been a decades-long shift to cheaper-to-operate Asian chip plants, and the industry is now dependent on Taiwan, which China has long claimed as its own.
\"If we were ever to lose, for a sustainable amount of time, access to the southeast Asian supply chain, what we just went through would pale in comparison,\" Robinson said.
Integra, founded in 1983, has about 500 employees in Wichita and Silicon Valley and describes itself as the largest U.S. provider of the last two major assembly and testing steps in the chip manufacturing process. The new factory is expected to pay an average annual wage of $51,000, about 46% higher than the state's average of roughly $35,000.
For Integra to receive its incentives, it must invest at least $1.5 billion in the new factory in the next five years and consistently provide the equivalent of 1,600 full-time jobs for 10 consecutive years.
The incentives are part of a program Kansas created last year<\/a> to ramp up its efforts to compete with other states for new, large factories. Under that program, the state was allowed to offer up to $1 billion in incentives to a single company each in 2022 and 2023.
In July 2022, Kelly and other state officials announced that Panasonic Corp. plans to build a mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries<\/a> for Tesla and other carmakers. The state lured the Japanese electronics giant's project to the edge of the Kansas City area with incentives worth $829 million over 10 years, the most the state has ever offered.
The law<\/a> allowing the incentives required top leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature to sign off any deal between a company and the state Department of Commerce, which is led by Lt. Gov. David Toland, a Democrat like Kelly. The legislative leaders gave their approval just minutes ahead of the announcement, after meeting in private with Kelly for half an hour to review the agreement, with no opportunity for public review or input.
The law also requires Kansas to drop its corporate income tax rates by half a percentage point for each mega-deal. If the Integra project goes forward, the top rate would decline to 6% from 7%, saving all corporations roughly $100 million a year.
While both mega-projects have had bipartisan support, some lawmakers are critical of promising such big taxpayer-funded incentives to a single firm.
\"We have not written the checks for this first project and they're starting the second one without even knowing that it works,\" state Senate tax committee Chair Caryn Tyson, a conservative Republican from eastern Kansas, said before Thursday's announcement.
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堪萨斯要求304美元的芯片工厂以吸引联邦基金
宣布带有美国试图扭转亏损使芯片的能力是至关重要的智能手机,笔记本电脑和其他现代的便利,以及汽车和挽救生命的医疗设备。去年国会通过了一项措施,提供了超过520亿美元的半导体产业津贴和其他激励措施。
堪萨斯州托皮卡:计划3.04亿美元纳税人的钱奖励给半导体公司在其最大城市建造一个巨大的新工厂,但是这个项目不会前进,没有资金,美国政府已承诺为重建国家的芯片制造能力。
堪萨斯州州长劳拉·凯利周四宣布达成协议Integra技术位于威奇托的10年期的一揽子减税和报销费用。政府官员说,新的18亿美元的工厂将覆盖100万平方英尺,有2000名员工,供应商和其他当地企业创造3000个新的工作岗位。
宣布带有美国试图扭转亏损使芯片的能力是至关重要的智能手机,笔记本电脑和其他现代的便利,以及汽车和救生医疗设备。美国国会去年批准的措施,提供了超过520亿美元的拨款和其他激励措施半导体行业。
凯利在州议会的新闻发布会上对记者说,该州的激励措施吸引联邦基金是至关重要的,“让堪乐动扑克萨斯我国的国家安全工作的重要组成部分。”
“这先进的生产设施是一个国家的一部分努力恢复我们的半导体产业,以便美国工人和企业在21世纪竞争并获胜的比赛,”凯利说。
Integra首席执行官布雷特•罗宾逊不会说公司需要联邦资金多少,只是有“没有商业上可行的方法”来做这个项目。他和其他政府官员说国家试图吸引这个项目,但他们没有透露的竞争对手。
“这不仅仅是美国和安全至关重要,但它是供应链的关键,”堪萨斯州参议院议长泰马斯特森说,Wichita-area共和党。
总统拜登敦促国会去年以提高美国半导体行业,因为缺少芯片更糟糕的是由全球冠状病毒大流行和竞争的担忧国际竞争对手,尤其是中国。有几十年转向cheaper-to-operate亚洲芯片工厂,和行业现在是依赖于台湾,中国一直宣称是自己的技术。
“如果我们曾经失去的,可持续的时间,访问东南亚供应链,我们就经历了苍白相比之下,”罗宾逊说。
Integra,成立于1983年,拥有约500名员工在威奇托和硅谷和自称是美国最大的供应商的最后两个主要在芯片制造过程中装配和测试步骤。新工厂预计年平均工资为51000美元,高出46%的约35000美元的平均水平。
Integra接收其动机,它必须至少15亿美元投资于新工厂在未来五年并始终提供相当于1600连续10年全职工作。
激励是堪萨斯州一个程序的一部分创造了去年加大力度与其他国家争夺新的大型工厂。在这个项目下,国家被允许提供高达10亿美元的刺激到一个公司在2022年和2023年。
2022年7月,凯利和其他政府官员宣布,松下公司。计划建立一个mega-factory生产电动汽车电池特斯拉和其他汽车制造商。国家吸引日本电子巨头的项目到堪萨斯城的边缘区域与奖励价值8.29亿美元的10年,大多数国家提供。
法律允许所需的激励高层领导的共和党控制的州议会签署任何协议之间的公司和国家商务部,由副州长戴维•托兰民主党人喜欢凯莉。立法领导人把他们的公告,批准提前几分钟后私下会见凯利半个小时审核协议,没有公共审查或输入的机会。
法律还要求堪萨斯放弃公司为每个大的所得税税率百分之一。如果Integra项目前进,最高税率将从6%下降到7%,节省所有的公司约1亿美元一年。
虽然两大工程有两党支持,一些议员至关重要的如此大的纳税人的激励一个公司。
“我们还没有编写检查这第一个项目,他们开始第二个甚至不知道它的工作原理,”州参议院税收委员会主席Caryn泰森,来自堪萨斯州东部的一个保守的共和党表示,周四的声明之前。
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