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General Motors is rushing to make up for lost production in the wake of a month-long United Auto Workers strike at a Lansing-area assembly plant that builds the automaker's popular crossovers. GM's Delta Township factory will run two shifts on May 31 and June 7, both Saturdays, to rebuild supply of the GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave and Saturn Outlook, according to an online positing by UAW Local 602, which represents the plant. The union, in its online posting, said GM needs to make up 18,000 vehicl...

This isn't GM's first foray into lost foam casting. The technique was used to produce engines for the automaker's Saturn division until this year with the introduction of the new Ecotec engine family.

When rain falls upon the Lansing, Michigan, plant where Saturn builds one of its models, they do something pretty noteworthy with the rainwater. They recycle it. Jill Lajdziak is rather proud. As the general manager and top executive of General Motors' Saturn division, she cites the recycling as an important example — but just one — of the company's overall approach to sustainability. "We walk the talk," she says. "I think you build trust in the consumer's mind when you do that, and th...

General Motors plans to move production of the Saturn ION from Spring Hill, Tennessee to Lordstown, Ohio.

General Motors will resume full production of its popular Saturn Aura and Chevrolet Malibu sedans today after workers in Kansas City, Kansas, voted to return to the line after a 17-day strike that threatened one of the automaker's most critical vehicles. Members of United Auto Workers Local 31, representing GM's Fairfax Assembly plant, on Wednesday ratified a new plant-level labor deal with the automaker, GM spokesman Dan Flores said. The strike's conclusion ends months of labor unrest for GM, w...

General Motors will invest $200 million into its Fairfax, Kansas manufacturing site for production of an all-new steel-bodied Saturn midsize car.

GM says that it will make money on its upcoming line of Delaware-built rear-wheel drive sports cars.

Saturn has decided to reduce production of its Wilmington, DE plant for the third time this year because of slow L-Series sales.

The Associated Press reports that General Motors plans to reduce production of the Saturn Relay, Buick Terraza, Chevrolet Uplander, and Pontiac Montana SV6.

In a move that should help secure jobs, General Motors Corp. plans to build a new Saturn model at its Lordstown Assembly Plant next year, GM sources said. The model is the 2007 Ion, a small car that will use the same "Delta" mechanical underpinnings as the Chevrolet Cobalt now built in Lordstown, said the sources, who asked not to be identified. The Ion now is built at Saturn's plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The 2007 will be a completely new design.

Saturn could be forced to lay off employees in the wake of an $849.7 million loss last year and increased pressure from its parent company to boost productivity, according to internal company documents Bloomberg News service has obtained.

Saturn's Spring Hill plant has increased production by almost 32% during the first 11 months of this year compared with last year, primarily because of the Vue, the sport utility vehicle introduced last December.

GM announced the appointment of new plant managers for Saturn's Spring Hill and Wilmington plants.

GM posted the best overall improvement in productivity, but its Saturn plant in Spring Hill saw a 7.2% drop in productivity, going from 35.59 hours per vehicle in 1999 to 38.16 hours per vehicle last year.

New fuel rules for pickups and SUVs shouldn't have any immediate impact on Saturn and Nissan North America, which manufacture such vehicles in the midstate Tennessee.