New Lego factory in the US – level 1

20-06-2022 07:00

Lego is a Danish company. It makes colored plastic bricks. It makes around 100 billion bricks every year.

Lego is one of the biggest toymakers in the world. The company is building a new factory in Virginia, US. The factory will fix some problems. They are happening all over the world now.

Transportation is very expensive. Many problems are in the supply chain. The supply chain is how a company sends things to customers.

The new factory will open in 2025. It will have 160,000 square meters. 1,760 people will work there. 24,000 people work for Lego in all world.

Difficult words: toymaker (a company which makes toys for children), transportation (a way to move someone or something from one place to another), customer (a person who buys things).

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