Wallbox Closes US Charger Plant, Moves Production to Barcelona — Canada Already Affected

Spanish charging station manufacturer Wallbox Chargers is shutting down production at its US factory in Arlington, Texas, and relocating it to Barcelona. The company says the move is part of an operational reorientation following a restructuring of debts amounting to almost 170 million euros, and that it does not represent a withdrawal from the North American market. Wallbox now plans to supply US and Canadian customers from Spain.

What the closure means for North America

Wallbox launched the Arlington plant in autumn 2022 with a designed capacity of 250,000 charging units per year and an ambition to reach one million units by 2030. That expansion is now off the table. According to Spanish media outlet Ecotechers, citing company sources, production of DC chargers for the USA had already been shifted to Barcelona. A few months ago, production of AC units for Canada was also centralized in Spain. Now, manufacturing of AC home chargers is being withdrawn from the USA entirely.

For Canadian buyers, the practical impact is already visible: the AC chargers sold here are now coming from Barcelona, not Texas. Wallbox remains a visible brand in the Canadian residential and commercial charging market, and the company says its North American distribution network stays intact.

The financial background

The Arlington closure is the latest chapter in Wallbox's financial struggles. The company acquired the insolvent German wallbox maker ABL in 2023, purchasing the majority of ABL's operating assets for around 15 million euros. The debt restructuring that prompted the US exit totals nearly 170 million euros — a scale that suggests Wallbox is trying to streamline operations and preserve cash.

Despite the US plant closing, Wallbox stresses that it is not leaving the North American market. The Supernova DC Charger, one of its higher-power products, has already been built in Spain for some time and will continue to supply North American fleet and commercial customers. The shift simply moves the final assembly point back to Barcelona.

What to watch

Charger availability in Canada has become more supply-chain sensitive as the federal government pushes toward 8,500 new public charging ports by 2029. A major supplier pulling US production back to Europe does not create an immediate gap — Wallbox's Canadian inventory and Spanish production can cover near-term demand — but it does reduce North American manufacturing redundancy at a time when tariff uncertainty already makes cross-border equipment flows complicated.

Buyers who specifically wanted a US-assembled Wallbox will no longer have that option. For everyone else, the key question is whether Barcelona can keep up with North American delivery timelines if demand spikes again.

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