GM Fort Wayne Plant Tipped For Big Investment Announcement
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra will be in Roanoke, Indiana, on Thursday for what local media reported said is a major investment announcement.
Accompanying Barra will be Executive Vice President of Global Manufacturing Gerald Johnson and a handful of state and local officials where the group is expected to make an investment announcement for the Fort Wayne assembly plant. The plant currently builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 crew cab models. Additionally, the plant is responsible for the Silverado HD and Sierra HD in a handful of cab and bed configurations.
The plant previously built the last-generation Silverado and Sierra as well.
Details surrounding the announcement aren’t known yet, though the plant most recently received an investment to build the current Silverado and Sierra models. Production expansion is a possibility for the pickups, especially as GM prepares to launch its new HD pickups.
The Fort Wayne plant has also been a hot transfer destination for those impacted by GM plant idling. Earlier this year, the Lordstown plant in Ohio went idle. Two transmission plants followed: one in Maryland, the other in Michigan. The Detroit-Hamtramck plant will go idle in January 2020 as well.
The news conference is set for 11:15 a.m. this morning and we will bring you the latest details on the investment as they break.
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Source: Local ABC News affiliate WPTA
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Wow they just finished their $2 billion expansion for the new trucks. And I don’t think that even brought Mary in when they announced that (could be wrong). Original blueprints for the plant was to actually build a second identical mirror image plant next to it, I’m sure that is not ever going to happen but the power plant and all other utilities were originally sized for a much bigger campus so there is capacity for expansion. Great area for a plant (great highway access, centrally located in the midwest, cheap area to live) and excited to see what they do there
Electric pickup…?
$24 million for upgrading conveyors/tooling to boost the line speed a little. Nice upgrade but with all the hoopla I figured it was something a little bigger than that.
Well you know Machete Mary, can’t pass up an opportunity for a photo opp even if it is for a token investment. You wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of corporate money for her and her security force to arrange visits like this. Nevertheless, people can see through this charade. If it was anything other than a PR BS tour, she would be visiting Lordstown, and the DHAM and Warren operations that are up the street from the Ren Cen.
Doubt it was all that ridiculous for her travel, I’m sure she travels almost daily so it’s not a big deal for her. But people underestimate how much it costs the plant when a CEO or someone comes in for a visit. Cleaning every visible area of the shop, repainting those aisle ways, replacing the dingy office floor, repaint the hallways, spruce up the landscaping, move anything not bolted down in the shop to a back room to reduce clutter, plan the shop tour down to the second, develop talking points and highlights to point out, plan the tour route to walk past items that drive home those highlights you developed, etc etc etc. Plus then all of the actual value added activities that weren’t done because people are getting ready. Big wigs coming to the plant sucks.
Regular Cab short box for US!?
The Fort Wayne plant doesnt build any HD variants anymore, all HD models and trims are built in Flint, and Flint doesnt build any 1500 anymore
Nice job on the 6 year old photos for an article that tells us virtually nothing and is riddled with errors. This website has really let it’s quality and integrity slip.