When Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, aka “Cadillac”, arrived by canoe in 1701 on the shores of what is now Detroit, little did he know that his decision to establish a fort and trading post along a bottleneck of the Great Lakes would become the center of the world’s automobile industry and
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FCA’s new assembly plant on Detroit’s east side marks yet another milestone. As steel continues to be raised for the new paint shop, the first piece of equipment has been installed, a 120-ft. E-coat dip tank that had to be delivered in six separate sections. Weighing about 30,000 lbs. or nearly 17 tons each, the
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The application window is now open for city of Detroit residents who have been invited to apply for jobs at FCA’s new Mack facility. More than 10,000 Detroit residents who participated in the pre-application process have received an email inviting them to fill out an online application and take an assessment test. Detroit residents who
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The first major sign of exterior construction at FCA’s new Detroit assembly plant could be seen Tuesday as crews raised the first vertical column of steel for the new paint shop at the Mack site. Crews have been working to clear the land, dig the foundation and grade the property along St. Jean on Detroit’s
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FCA is currently the only automaker to have an automotive assembly plant located entirely within the city limits of Detroit and the Company is increasing that commitment with a $2.5 billion investment – and adding nearly 5,000 new jobs – to enhance and expand its footprint in the city. The investment will convert the existing
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The foresight of former FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne in 2016 to announce that the Company would be discontinuing compact car production, and boosting capacity of SUVs and trucks to meet shifting consumer demand has had a significant impact on the Company, the industry and the city of Detroit. To satisfy the market, Marchionne and the
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