GM to invest $491M in Marion, Indiana, stamping plant to support EV production

General Motors will invest $491 million at the GM Marion Stamping plant in Marion, Indiana, to prepare it to make steel and aluminum stamped parts for future vehicles — including electric cars — made at various GM assembly plants.

The investment announced Thursday will be used to buy and install two new press lines, complete press and die upgrades, renovations and construct a 6,000-square-foot addition. The work on the facility starts in the next four months. GM employs about 750 people at the plant and “employment is expected to remain stable with the addition of this new work,” the automaker said in a statement.

“While this investment prepares the facility for our all-electric future, it’s really an investment in our talented Marion team and will keep the plant working for many years to come,” Gerald Johnson, GM executive vice president of Global Manufacturing and Sustainability, said in the statement.

GM CEO Mary Barra has previously said the automaker intends to bring all current employees along in its transition to exclusively sell all-electric vehicles by 2035. GM will bring 30 new EVs to market in the next three years. GM has said it has a target to build 1 million EVs in North America by the end of 2025. It currently makes the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt and Bolt EUV at Orion Assembly in Orion Township and makes the 2023 GMC Hummer EV at Factory Zero, the plant that straddles Detroit and Hamtramck. Both plants will get more EVs to build in the future, including the 2024 Silverado EV pickup.

The UAW said the investment in Marion Stamping will create job security for Local 977 members who work there.

“GM is making this investment because of the hard work and dedication of our UAW Local 977 members in Marion,” Ray Curry, UAW president and director of the General Motors and Gaming departments, said in a statement.

First opened in 1956, GM’s Marion Metal Center produces sheet metal parts for multiple GM assembly plants to support production of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles.