GM do Brasil laid the first foundation stone at a new engine plant in Joinville, Brazil that will begin operations in 2012 and will cost $205 million. The plant will have the ability to produce 120,000 engines and 200,000 aluminnum cylinder heads per year that will then be sent to both the Gravatai (Brazil) and Rosario (Argentina) plant.
“Joinville is a strategic place for us in terms of location because we can reach our two plants in a very short commute,” said Marcos Munhoz, vice president of GM do Brasil Communications, Public and Governmental Relations.
The engine plant will also set aside 500,000 acres of as an environmental conservation area.
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