GM invests additional $788.7 million in Spring Hill plant

General Motors has announced it will invest $788.7 million for an all-new, high-efficiency engine program at its Spring Hill Manufacturing plant in Tennessee, as well as projects to modernize the vehicle programs there, creating 792 jobs and retaining 16.

Construction is expected to last several years.

Spring Hill Manufacturing opened in 1990 and has produced Saturn® vehicles, the Chevrolet Traverse®, and the Chevrolet Equinox®. Currently the site comprises a flexible vehicle assembly plant producing the Cadillac XT5® and the GMC Acadia®, an engine plant making 4-cylinder engines, a stamping plant, a body shop, a paint shop, and two polymer injection molding operations. Engines and stampings are supplied to various GM assembly plants globally. The complex will begin building small block V8 engines by the end of 2016.