TBIC News

Around the SelectUSA Investment Summit 2026, TBIC visited member communities and partners in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Indiana, and Georgia.

Before the Summit, TBIC attended the Select Hampton Roads event hosted by the Hampton Roads Alliance and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The program provided valuable insights into the region’s strengths in defense, energy, aerospace, logistics, and related industries. Following the Summit, TBIC continued with meetings in Chattanooga, Dalton, Rome, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Gainesville.

The visits offered an important opportunity to strengthen relationships with TBIC members and partners, gain updated insights into regional assets and developments, and better understand the local value propositions TBIC represents to European companies. These conversations are essential to TBIC’s work of connecting European companies with the right U.S. communities and supporting long-term transatlantic investment.

SelectUSA may be over, but the conversations are far from finished! Through TBIC’s FDI Recruitment Program, we connected 20 of our members with European companies attending the Summit. The meetings opened the door to many valuable conversations around U.S. expansion plans, location needs, and next steps, and created strong new connections between our members and companies exploring the U.S. market.

It was also great to see so many familiar faces from across the transatlantic investment community and to welcome many of you at our Transatlantic Happy Hour together with JESCO, Inc. and Offit Kurman. This was our most successful Happy Hour yet, and we are grateful to everyone who joined us and made it such a great evening.

Thank you to everyone who met with us, joined us, or stopped by throughout the week. We look forward to continuing the conversations started at SelectUSA!

TBIC attended interpack 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany, one of the leading international trade shows for the packaging and processing technology sector.

During the visit, TBIC connected with European companies active in packaging, processing, automation, pharmaceuticals, food processing, cosmetics, chemicals, and advanced manufacturing. The conversations highlighted the central role of packaging technologies in global value chains and showed continued interest in the U.S. market as companies evaluate opportunities to scale operations, strengthen supply chains, and serve North American customers more directly.

TBIC was also pleased to meet with Corporate Member Tennessee Valley Authority during the show. The visit provided valuable insights into current industry developments and created a strong basis for continued conversations with companies exploring U.S. expansion.

TBIC attended Hannover Messe 2026 for a three-day special program focused on connecting with European industrial companies and identifying new opportunities for U.S. market expansion.

During the event, TBIC engaged with companies across advanced manufacturing, industrial automation, energy, artificial intelligence, and decarbonization-related technologies. The conversations reflected several key trends shaping investment decisions, including energy costs, nearshoring dynamics, automation, and the growing importance of industrial resilience.

Hannover Messe once again showed how strongly European industrial companies are evaluating international growth opportunities. The visit provided valuable insights into current market developments and generated a strong pipeline for follow-up conversations with companies considering the U.S. as a future location.

TBIC welcomed a delegation from New Mexico to Hamburg and Berlin for a program focused on strengthening transatlantic connections and exploring opportunities for cooperation between New Mexico and Germany.

During the visit, the delegation met with members of the German Bundestag, site selection consultants, the U.S. Commercial Service, regional stakeholders, and several local companies exploring options in the U.S. market. The program included meetings and discussions across sectors such as aviation, clean energy, logistics, defense, and related industrial ecosystems.

The visit provided valuable insights into current industry and policy developments in Germany while giving New Mexico the opportunity to present its strengths as a location for international business and investment. TBIC thanks all participating partners and companies for the productive conversations and looks forward to continuing the dialogue.