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Michigan's auto plants seek bright future amid change-2020 China(Guangzhou) Int’l Laser Equipment and Sheet Metal Industry Exhibition
8/21/2019 - Laser Equipment, Sheet Metal Industry expo |
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The auto show returns to downtown Detroit next month with new models wrapped in shiny new sheet metal, but the larger changes for the industry are already happening on the assembly lines across the state. Changes in consumer tastes, the rise of autonomous and connected vehicles and the trade policies of a new president are helping shape the staffing level and profitability inside the workplaces of some of the best-paying unionized jobs in the state.
Despite years of plant closures that accelerated through bankruptcies at General Motors and Chrysler in 2009, Michigan is still home to a dozen light-duty vehicle assembly plants, employing nearly 35,000 employees. Recent auto manufacturer investment has exceeded $8.9 billion in nine of these plants, according to a new report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for MICHauto, a group dedicated to promoting, retaining and growing the auto industry in the state.Michigan produces 28 different vehicles. In 2016, nearly 40% of those vehicles can be categorized as trucks and SUV and crossover vehicles, keeping in line with consumer preferences shaped in part by low gasoline prices.
The report issued earlier this month concluded that "The facilities make a significant contribution to their local communities and are a major part of Michigan’s annual automotive industry.”
It hasn''t been easy to keep the auto industry revving here.
In the 1980s, southern US states attracted assembly plants that once would have called Michigan home. Areas along the Mexico border picked up steam for auto plants in the 1990s. Automakers then ventured overseas to places like China in the hunt for cheaper components.
Today, Silicon Valley and electric carmaker Telsa''s home in Nevada are making push for autonomous and connected cars and trucks in a race for the industry''s top computer coders, designers and engineers.
Now more transformation could rock Michigan''s auto production, experts say. Most major automakers have built new plants in Mexico in recent years or have plans to expand there over the next two years and have grown to rely on production from the country because of lower wages and less regulation.
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