General Motors announces expansion of Louisiana plant
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Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 28 Oct 2004 18:01
General Motors announced its selection of its Shreveport, LA, plant for its new Hummer H3 product line, and will invest approximately $250 million to expand the plant.
The new investment will bring the company’s recent total investments in the plant to $1 billion.
To accommodate H3 production, the plant required an additional 296,000 square feet of manufacturing space. In addition to construction jobs, the new line for H3 production will add more than 300 jobs to the approximately 3,200 currently working at the plant.
The H3 line is a new, smaller version of the Hummer model. Workers at the GM plant in Shreveport will begin construction of this model in mid-2005, with the first H3s arriving in retail outlets shortly thereafter.
Originally built in 1981, GM’s manufacturing plant in Shreveport built the S-10 series of Chevrolet and GMC trucks. The facility added two more lines in 2001 with the Colorado and Canyon truck lines. The plant currently produces 960 trucks per day.
“These types of investments happen when you combine a modern facility with the nation’s most productive workforce. The nation’s companies are changing their view of the new economic climate in Louisiana,” said Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco in a statement. “We value GM’s commitment to northwest Louisiana.”
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