TONAWANDA, NY — General Motors will invest $6.7 million in its engine plant here to upgrade production systems. Some $4.4 million of the total will go toward capital investment, while the remaining $2.3 million will go toward project expenses, to improve efficiencies in making 5.3-liter V8 engines used in full-size trucks.
“This is to provide additional flexibility to retool some of our lines,” says Ram Ramanujam, the plant director. “We have multiple machining lines that feed the assembly line and we have not retooled all of them. Now we're going to go ahead and retool one additional line, which provides us a little bit more flexibility to build those [engine] models.”