The company will be outfitting the facility with the latest servo tandem-press technology, enabling an extra 12,000 daily hits and annual output to increase by 3.6 million parts.
The plant already employs 2,000 workers and produces 80 million parts each year, including hoods, roofs, liftgates, side apertures, fenders and floor plans. The components are sent to five different assembly facilities for the Ram Trucks range, the Dodge Dart, Durango and Grand Caravan; the Chrysler 200 and Town & Country; and the Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee.
“As production at our Chrysler Group assembly plants has nearly tripled in the past five years, we have been pushing our stamping facilities to keep up,” aid Chrysler Group manufacturing head Mauro Pino.
The company has invested $5.3 billion in its US manufacturing facilities since 2009.
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