GM TO BUILD $44.5M PARTS ASSEMBLY SITE IN LANSING

LANSING, MICH. — General Motors has announced it will build a $44.5 million parts assembly facility at its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant. The 2.5-million-square-foot plant, which opened in 2001, is where the automaker builds Cadillac vehicles. General Motors plans to construct the 400,000-square-foot building adjacent to the plant to sequence and assemble parts to make manufacturing more flexible at the site. “This project is the latest example of how we’re doing business differently in General Motors today,” says Christine Sitek, manufacturing manager of General Motors North America. “We’ve developed an innovative material strategy that increases efficiency and improves quality to benefit our customers, employees and the bottom line.” General Motors hopes to have the building open and providing parts by the end of 2014, according to the Washington Post.