BILLUND, DENMARK -- Yesterday, the Lego Group officially opened Kornmarken Campus, its first dedicated global manufacturing innovation center. The new campus is part of the company’s investment in manufacturing technologies and capabilities that power product development and production.
Located in Billund, Denmark, where the LEGO Group was founded 94 years ago, Kornmarken Campus brings together people and technologies in an environment designed to inspire collaboration. At the same time, it will accelerate innovation speed and quality.
Together with the legacy factory, the 47,000 m² campus forms a 100,000 m² state-of-the-art facility. From here, some 1,800 LEGO colleagues from engineering, quality and manufacturing will develop, test and scale new manufacturing technologies, while also continuing production of LEGO bricks.
Key facilities include:
- Test & Innovation Center: Development, testing and scaling of new LEGO elements, production processes and technologies across molds, molding, processing and packaging.
- Materials Lab: Research into more sustainable raw materials, including alternatives to fossil fuel-based plastics.
- Additive Manufacturing Center: Experimentation and development through advanced 3D manufacturing capabilities.
- Training Academy: Bringing together apprentice academies for plastic makers and tool makers to build future specialist capabilities.
- Mold Manufacturing: Manufacturing of molds for novelties and new mold concepts.
The campus is designed to inspire collaboration, learning and wellbeing, with shared workspaces and thoughtfully developed facilities that reflect Lego's values and craftsmanship heritage. For example, it has historic molds, linking decades of engineering expertise with future innovation. It also includes a 25‑tonne red 2x4 LEGO brick installation.
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Sustainability has been integral to the campus's design and construction. The building incorporates energy‑efficient systems, a renewable energy supply, rainwater management and measures that aim to strengthen our relationship with nature and to create a healthy indoor environment.
The 22,000 m² mass timber construction helps reduce the building’s environmental footprint by locking carbon into the structure, while an existing nearby 4 MW solar park will partly power the facility.
The company is also building a new 80-100 MW solar park, which, once completed, will be able to match 100 percent of the plant's total energy consumption in Billund.
Lego is also working on a new Copenhagen Hub, set to open in 2027 in the city center, where colleagues from the current Copenhagen offices will be brought together.
Lego employs more than 7,200 people in Denmark, of whom nearly 6,600 are based in Billund.
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