BOWLING GREEN, KY—General Motors restarted operations at its assembly plant here on Dec. 20, nine days after a violent tornado swept through Kentucky and damaged the facility.

WARREN, MI—General Motors Co. plans to invest $70 million into its Tonawanda, NY, engine plant and more than $6 million in its Parma, OH, metal stamping plant. The investments are intended to support demand for GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.

DETROIT—General Motors will build a new factory in North America as part of an upcoming joint venture with a South Korean chemical manufacturer.

LANSING, MI—General Motors will shut down its Delta Township plant for 11 weeks over the course of 2022 to get ready to build a new vehicle, the GMC Acadia SUV. GM is dedicating $100 million to the changes at the Delta plant, and by the new year workers will see those plans come to life.

DETROIT—General Motors and Ford are again reducing production at their North American assembly plants due to a shortage of semiconductor chips.

TOLEDO, OH—General Motors will invest $75 million in its transmission assembly plant here. The investment will increase the plant’s capacity to build 10-speed automatic transmissions that are used in GM’s full-size trucks, including the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Work will begin immediately at the plant.

LORDSTOWN, OH—General Motors is starting the process to hire more than 1,000 positions at its Ultium Cells LLC battery assembly plant here.

DETROIT—General Motors plans to invest $71 million in two Ohio manufacturing facilities, including $39 million at its Toledo transmission plant and $32 million at its Defiance casting plant. Work will begin immediately at the two locations. These investments will enable GM to retain 240 U.S. manufacturing jobs.

After sitting idle for weeks or even months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. assembly plants have finally restarted production, albeit with the occasional hiccup.