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GM Investing $60M in Flint Metal Center

FLINT, MI-The investment will add new equipment to the two-million-sf industrial facility, where sheet metal panels for GM trucks and midsize vans are among the products made.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on August 25, 2004

FLINT, MI-GM says it will invest $60 million in the Flint Metal Center. According to Jim Wiemels, GM vice president and general manager of the metal fabricating division, the investment includes two new blanking systems, several weld assembly systems, tools for future products and related equipment.

“This investment recognizes the contributions of the men and women at the Flint Metal Center,” Wiemels says. “Employees at Flint have demonstrated that they will help us get a good return on the investment.”

The Flint Metal Center, which sits on 92 acres and consists of two million sf, employs approximately 2,330. The plant stamps and assembles major and secondary sheet metal panels for GM trucks and midsize vans and produces engine cradles for passenger cars and midsize vans.

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