GM is halting production at a 78-year-old Detroit-area plant this week

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

GM is halting production at a 78-year-old Detroit-area plant this week

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
Updated 1700 GMT (0100 HKT) July 29, 2019

New York (CNN Business) — General Motors' 78-year-old transmission plant in Warren, Michigan is halting production this week.

The Detroit-area plant is one of five in North America that GM last year announced would suspend operations as part of the company's business transformation. GM plans to build fewer sedans as customers demand more trucks and SUVs. It also wants to reshape is business to eventually build more electric cars, while saving $6 billion annually starting at the end of 2019.

The Warren plant opened in 1941 and has been operated by GM (GM) since 1958. It produces six-speed transmissions for the Cadillac XTS and the Chevrolet Impala — both models that GM is discontinuing. GM is largely replacing those kind of transmissions with more advanced versions.

GM thanked the plant's roughly 200 employees in a statement.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/gm-warren-manufacturing-plant/index.html

[marble falls]

1. GM to employees: Thanks and you all already know where the gate is, don't ...

let it hit your fannies.

By "elsewhere" GM meant "off-shore".

Lil' Donnie Two Scoops is doing a swell job staunching the bleed of American jobs, ain't he?

[Auggie]

2. 60 workers have transferred to other factories in the United States and 25 workers retired ...

according to the link (and if true).

I hate factory shutdowns as much as anyone. But this one, at 78 years old, may have reached the end of useful life.

Could GM have re-purposed it it make SUVs, trucks, and electrics? We'll never know. Is manufacturing being "off-shored?" This we might find out.

A sad ending.

SUVs and trucks! It's like welcoming climate catastrophe ...