General Motors
Company will add a third shift at its Fairfax, Kans.; Ft. Wayne, Ind.;
and Lansing Delta Township, Mich. plants - restoring 2,400 jobs and
enabling GM to increase its manufacturing plant utilization in the
U.S.
These actions,
noted below, are the result of consolidating product built at
manufacturing facilities that are, as previously announced, retooling
for a new product, closing or being placed on standby capacity:
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Fairfax, which builds the recently
launched all-new Buick LaCrosse the popular Chevrolet Malibu and
Saturn Aura, will become the exclusive builder of the Malibu when
the Orion, Mich. assembly plant ends production in November. In
2010, the Orion plant will begin retooling and make history when it
becomes the first U.S. plant to produce small cars to be sold in the
U.S. market in 2011. The new shift at the Fairfax plant is scheduled
to begin in January, 2010.
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Ft. Wayne will add production of
heavy duty pickups (Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra) from the
Pontiac, Mich. plant that will close the end of this month. The
third shift is scheduled to begin in April, 2010.
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Lansing Delta Township, Mich. will add the Chevy Traverse which is
currently built at the Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee,
which will cease production in November but remain on standby
capacity. The new shift at the Lansing plant is scheduled to begin
in April 2010.
These changes are
in addition to GM's previous announcement that a second shift will be
added at the Lordstown Complex (Ohio) in October where the popular
Chevy Cobalt is built and all-new Chevy Cruze will be launched in the
spring of 2010.
For more
information, visit
www.gm.com.