Encore Wire opens new McKinney plant, expands service center with investment

Encore Wire’s McKinney campus added a 340,800-square-foot copper building wire plant and a 1 million-square-foot service center, and the company said about 115 employees are working the plant while more than 250 staff the logistics hub. In all, Prysmian | Encore Wire says it employs around 1,750 people across its McKinney campus, a 460-acre site it says now spans 3.5 million square feet.

Andrea Pirondini called the ribbon cutting “a very historic moment today here in McKinney,” and the company says the expanded service center is built for next-day shipments and customized orders. That is the clearest local consequence of the investment: more product moving faster through the South Airport Drive side of town, and a freight-heavy operation that should mean more truck traffic around east McKinney and the airport corridor.

The buildout is part of a larger capital plan. Prysmian announced a $500 million, five-year investment at the Encore campus in 2025, including up to 120 new jobs, and state filings show a separate Encore Wire Plant 5 at 901 South Airport Drive, estimated at $220 million and scheduled for completion Dec. 14. The company also disclosed a $20 million service-center expansion that was completed Feb. 20. No wage figure was included in the announcements, so the public case rests on headcount, throughput and delivery speed rather than pay data.

City leaders have embraced the expansion as McKinney keeps drawing industrial and logistics projects east of the airport. Michael Kowski, president and CEO of the McKinney Economic Development Corporation, said Prysmian’s investment will be “significant to this community in so many different ways.” The company says the campus is central to its push to serve data-center growth, U.S. industrial expansion and grid modernization, but the real test for neighbors will be whether the promised jobs, truck volume and faster deliveries match the scale of the concrete and steel now filling South Airport Drive.