General Motors Customer Care and Aftersales broke ground on an all new $65 million ACDelco and Genuine GM Parts processing center on a vacant 141 acre lot in Burton, Michigan. It is the company’s largest single investment in a warehousing and logistics facility in the U.S. in nearly 40 years.
When the facility opens in early 2019, it will be the company’s main induction point in the U.S. for ACDelco and Genuine GM service parts that need to be unitized and packaged for sale. Ultimately, these parts are used to maintain every Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac sold in the U.S., and hundreds of competitive vehicles as well.
With 1.1 million square feet of floor space, the facility will be more than twice the size of the company’s existing parts processing center, which is located about five miles away. It will have 84 shipping and receiving docks, up from 35 today. Close to 700 hourly and salaried employees will staff the facility.
The current Davison Road facility is landfill free – one of more than 140 in GM’s global network – and GM will work toward the same status for the new facility. It will be built with energy-efficient LED light, and a sophisticated energy management system to reduce power consumption and improve comfort.
After the new facility opens, GM will close its existing processing center on Davison Road in Burton, and those employees will transfer to the new site. NorthPoint Development will build the new facility and lease it to GM for an initial term of 12.5 years.
Published in the October 2018 Edition