Automaker Invests Over $700 Million to Save Plant from Closure, an Industrial Info News Alert

SUGAR LAND, Texas--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). In the initial flood of news of plant closings by General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company, GM announced in late 2005 that it would close its Oshawa #2 assembly plant at the sprawling 700-acre site in 2008, resulting in a direct loss of 3,900 jobs. The hub of GM's Canadian operations and one of the main manufacturing centers in an Ontario industry that nearly equals Michigan's in terms of auto production.

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