GM to Reopen Spring Hill Manufacturing Plant
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GM to Reopen Spring Hill Manufacturing Plant
As the title says GM is set to reopen its Spring Hill Manufacturing Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The plant which opened in 1990 was the site for the now defunct Saturn brand building cars like the S-Series, Ion, and Vue until 2007. Then the plant was retooled and started producing the Chevrolet Traverse in 2009. Spring Hill continued to produce the Traverse until November 2009. Production was then shifted to Lansing, Michigan and the plant has been idle ever since. GM has now announced that it plans to reopen the plant by the second half of 2012 bringing back 700 jobs. They said they would spend $61 million dollars getting the plant ready to build the Chevrolet Equinox alongside the Ingersoll and Oshawa, Ontario plants due to high demand. GM then said it would later invest $183 million dollars and add 1,200 more jobs to build a new midsize vehicle there for the 2015 model year. A link to the full story is posted below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/bu...-700-jobs.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/bu...-700-jobs.html
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Good to hear that they are going to utilize that facility. I've heard that it may be used as a "quick change" facility to pick up slack when other plants are behind. Neat concept, if they pull it off.
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GM has been bringing a lot back inside. Some plants are running out of floorspace as a result. I don't know if it's a trend, but unlike 10 years ago, at least some things are coming back inside. It gives more control over the parts, delivery, sequencing, etc.
Spring Hill should have never been converted to the Traverse build in the first place. They could have been building Vues down there with Equinoxes years ago.
Spring Hill should have never been converted to the Traverse build in the first place. They could have been building Vues down there with Equinoxes years ago.
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I rebuilt a coolant filtration machine for this GM plant this past summer at work. We actually have done a total 5 rebuilds for GM, each machine went to different facilities. The machines that we rebuilt for them were machines from plants that they have closed, so new things were added to the machines to "re-tool" for their future homes.
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it would be awesome if the Big 3,(Bowtie, BlueOval and Penastar, remember those days??) would learn that new mantra for the future INSOURCING , lets build back a strong economy one job at a time!! one new ride at a tiime!!!