:: San Luis Potosí Assembly is a

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assembly plant located in

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— 400 km northwest of Mexico City. The facility was dedicated on July 30, 2008, with a June 2009 construction completion. President

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, other dignitaries, and local executives from General Motors attended the ground-breaking ceremony in July 2006.

Plant overview

Built on a site, the plant recycles 90% of the water it uses. The plant cost $650 million (US), employs up to 1800 and has an annual capacity of 160,000 cars is a part of a "quiet" trend of US companies moving production facilities to Mexico with little publicity. Other examples include the

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now manufactured at the newly renovated

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, where Chrysler invested $1 billion.

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manufactures its Versa in a Mexican plant — after a $1.3 million investment from the automaker and its suppliers.

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produces Jettas for the global market at its plant in

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, and will start production of the Jetta station wagon. The GM factory will be augmented by a new fastener production facility called Parque Industrial Millennium, a building, where EJOT of Bad Berleburg, Germany and ATF Inc. of Lincolnwood, IL, will manufacture engineered fasteners and cold-headed products.

Production

San Luis Potosí Assembly currently manufacturers the

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and

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vehicles. The plant previously manufactured

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variants of the Daewoo Kalos for the North American market. These included the

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and Pontiac G3/Wave for the United States and Canada, and the Suzuki Swift+ for Canada. The plant also manufactured Aveos marketed in Mexico and South America. The plant also previously manufactured the

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and the

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subcompact car.

Current

(2017–present) *

(2017–present)

Former

(2019–2022) * Pontiac G3/Wave (2009–2010) * Suzuki Swift+ (2009–2010) *

(2009–2017) *

(2012–2020)

References

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