San Luis Potosí Assembly

San Luis Potosí Assembly is an assembly plant of General Motors in San Luis Potosí, Mexico — 400 km northwest of Mexico City. It was dedicated on July 30, 2008. The Chevrolet Aveo and Pontiac G3 are assembled at the plant. Original projections suggested a June 2009 construction completion. President Vicente Fox, other dignitaries, and local executives from General Motors attended the ground-breaking ceremony in July 2006.

Plant snapshot:

• 850-acre (3.4 km²) Site.
• Built at a cost of 1.3 Billion US.
• 2500 employees, suppliers employ 17,500.
• Recycles 90% of the water it uses.
• Will build Aveo's to be marketed in Mexico and South America. Note: earlier conflicting sources suggest the Aveo's manufactured will be marketed also in the US and Canada.
• As of 9/5/08, Aveos staged in SLP plant with Canadian stickers. Had Aluminum Wheels, Onstar, and Navigation."/>

GM Daewoo currently builds Daewoo Kalos, which is marketed globally in 120 countries, includiing in Mexico as the Pontiac G3, in Canada as the Pontiac Wave, and in the US and Canada as the Chevrolet Aveo.

Tina Jantzi, senior manager of North American forecasting at J.D. Power and Associates, confirmed in July 2007 that GM will build the Pontiac G3, also a rebadged derivative of the Daewoo Kalos, in San Luis Potosi.

The plant, to cost $650 million (US) with employment up to 1800 and an annual capacity of 160,000 cars is a part of a "quiet" trend of US companies moving production facilities to Mexico with little publicity. Other examples include the Dodge Journey and Chrysler PT Cruiser now manufactured at the newly renovated Toluca Car Assembly, where Chrysler invested $1 billion. Nissan manufactures its Versa in a Mexican plant — after a $1.3 million investment from the automaker and its suppliers. Volkswagen produces Jettas for the global market at its plant in Puebla, and will start production of the Jetta station wagon.

The GM factory will be augmented by the a new fastener production facility called Parque Industrial Millennium, a 3400 m2 (~37,000 sq ft) building, where EJOT GmbH & Co. KG of Bad Laasphe, Germany and ATF Inc. of Lincolnwood, IL, will manufacture engineered fasteners and cold-headed products.