Articles Tagged with ''Michigan manufacturing''

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI—Magneti Marelli is set to open a new $6 million assembly plant here to make vehicle exhaust systems.

DETROIT—GM is seeking a tax abatement of about $1.8 million over 15 years from the city of Detroit as it considers building a $121 million logistics center at its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant.

ANN ARBOR, MI—Toyota plans to invest more than $28 million to expand operations at its two powertrain assembly plants here.

HUDSONVILLE, MI—Contract manufacturer Royal Technologies is hiring 80 workers for its assembly plant here.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI—Systems integrator Trantek Automation Corp. has opened a satellite office in Grand Rapids, MI.

MIDDLEVILLE, MI—Systems integrator TranTek Automation has designed and built an automated assembly system that has enabled Bradford White Corp. to keep producing water heaters in the United States.

DETROIT—Chrysler is planning to invest $52 million in its Michigan engine plants at Trenton and Dundee to boost production of a new engine.

HOLLAND, MI—LG Chem’s battery assembly plant here has completed preproduction testing and begun shipping batteries for the Chevrolet Volt.

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI—Chrysler’s Sterling Heights assembly plant is a facility “with nine lives.” Targeted for closure during the automaker’s government-backed bankruptcy in 2009, the facility is actually growing. When a new paint shop goes online early next year, the plant will become the most high-tech shop in Chrysler’s portfolio.

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI—The Armored Group has opened a new state-of-the-art assembly plant here.