GM to spend $691M on St. Catharines engine plant - BERITAJA

General Motors says it will walk $691 cardinal connected its St. Catharines Propulsion Plant to support accumulation of its latest V-8 engines for full-sized trucks and SUVs.

The automaker says the updates will make St. Catharines its 3rd works to nutrient the sixth procreation of the engine, pinch accumulation besides based successful Buffalo, N.Y., and Flint, Mich.

The finance comes arsenic tariffs imposed by the U.S. authorities person raised concerns about the early of Canada’s automotive sector.

GM Canada president Jack Uppal says successful a news merchandise that the finance confirms St. Catharines’ domiciled successful 1 of its halfway conveyance programs for years to come.

The automaker has besides been investing successful its works successful Oshawa, Ont., that produces pickup trucks, though the institution besides moved the works from 3 shifts to 2 astatine the extremity of January.

GM’s CAMI assembly works successful Ingersoll, Ont., is sitting idle aft it ended accumulation of its electrical transportation van past year.