Lordstown Plant to Build Saturn Model 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.
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Losses May Force Layoffs At Saturn 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.
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Midstate Plants Crank Out Cars 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.
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Nissan Picked Most Efficient Automaker 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.
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Permit Clears Way For The New Vue It's moving day at the massive $12 million General Motors warehouse on Port Royal Road, where components for Saturn's new Vue sport utility vehicle and S-Series cars will be received and stored.
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Saturn Case Study Before adding Microsoft to its existing strategic IT allies, Saturn assessed the problems of its existing environment. Crucial data resided in a variety of incompatible computing systems and networks.
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Saturn Cutting Production At Tennessee Plant Saturn will reduce its production of compact cars and station wagons at its plant here due to lagging demand. The move disclosed Friday comes a day after Saturn said it was cutting production at the Wilmington plant that builds the midsize L-series sedans and wagons.
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Saturn Plans No Spring Hill Ties for Minivan GM's plans to introduce a minivan into Saturn's product line beginning with the 2005 model year. But unlike all the Saturn vehicles before it, there are no plans for the minivan to have any ties to Spring Hill, where the first Saturn car rolled off the assembly line more than 12 years ago. The minivan, which will be named in May or June, will be built at GM's minivan plant in Doraville, GA, which assembles the Chevrolet Venture, Pontiac Montana and Oldsmobile Silhouette.
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Saturn Plant Melding into GM's Culture Saturn is taking another step toward blending with its parent, GM. Telephone operators at the automaker's Tennessee assembly plant, who used to greet callers with "Saturn Corp," have begun answering the phone "Spring Hill Manufacturing."
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Spring Hill Booms Beyond Saturn's Orbit Once upon a time there was a sleepy little pit stop called Spring Hill. One day a giant auto manufacturing plant moved in with all of its workers, and almost overnight, the quiet town along the county line exploded with commotion.
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