Direct from GM.
Nfamous, I know you'd be interested too.
GM Investing $225 Million in Tennessee Plant in Preparation For Future Vehicle Production
General Motors today announced it plans to invest approximately $225 million in its Spring Hill manufacturing complex to renovate the plant’s paint shop in preparation for future vehicle production. The investment is contingent on GM securing incentives from the state of Tennessee.
Based on the strong performance of the Spring Hill team, General Motors’ pending investment affirms the company’s commitment to its Tennessee operations.
“GM’s planned $225 million investment in Spring Hill is proof that this facility remains an important part of GM’s North American manufacturing plans,” said Tim Lee, GM vice president for Manufacturing and Labor Relations. “This project is instrumental to GM’s efforts to strengthen its core manufacturing capabilities in the United States and also demonstrates the value GM places on working together with our UAW partners to improve our manufacturing operations.”
GM’s Spring Hill manufacturing complex built its first vehicle on July 30, 1990. Since then, the complex has built and shipped more than 3.4 million vehicles. It currently builds the Saturn ION passenger car and Saturn VUE compact SUV. Production of the ION and VUE will be discontinued in late March 2007.
With the investment, the plant will be idled for several months for renovations, beginning in April 2007. The company is finalizing the timing of when the hourly workforce will be called back to work and when production will resume at Spring Hill.
The Spring Hill assembly plant employs approximately 3,500 UAW-represented team members and 230 salaried team members. UAW Local 1853 represents hourly employees throughout the complex.
FOR RELEASE: 2006-12-11
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glad to hear it, this is where the ION's were made right?
Yeppers.
And I tell ya, if you ever have a chance, you should really take a tour there. Fascinating to see.
Been there in 1994 & 1999.
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Blah tour Moraine Assembly where they know how to pump them out. lol
what models are gonna be made there now ?
I believe the new Malibu will be built there......
Spring Hill will be making the Chevy Version CUV that is built on the Lambda platform. Basically Spring Hill will be the Sister plant to the Lansing Delta which is building the Saturn Outlook, GMC Acadia, and Soon the Buick Enclave.
Spring Hill was a plant that didn't have much of a paint house due to the fact that all of the plastic was pre painted. They were also two Assembly lines. Now they will be like the basic 1 Bodyshop, 1 Paintshop, 1 General Assembly. Estimated Full production numbers of the Spring Hill plant is 350,000 a year while the Lansing Delta with 3 shifts will be 225,000.
Also Rumors of adding a Saab into the mix is out there also.
Malibus, and LaCrosses will be built at Fairfax Assembly as mentioned in another thread on the Epsilon 2 platform.
* Note I am tired and I posted this at 2am I could have put missinformation. lol
I live very close to there. Good to hear for the local economy.
2004 Cavalier. Razzi. (Sold)
1998 Corvette. Some mods.
1992 Typhoon. Lots of mods.
1994 Civic VX 44MPG
