Sterling Heights Assembly

Sterling Heights Assembly is a Chrysler automobile factory in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The factory opened in 1953 to produce missiles. Volkswagen converted it for automobile production in 1980 and it was subsequently purchased by Chrysler in 1983. The nearby Sterling Stamping opened in 1965. As the plant was modernized in 2006, the old Stratus assembly line and tooling was sold to OAO GAZ and had been shipped to that company's factory in Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. GAZ continues to produce the Stratus under license there.[1]

On May 6, 2009 it was announced that the Sterling Heights Assembly plant will close by December 2010.[2] However, the adjacent stamping plant will remain open.

In 2010 Chrysler purchased the plant from Old Carco LLC for 20 million dollars. The plant will retain its current 1,200 employees [3]. Chrysler will break ground on a new paint shop at the plant on June 21, 2011. This comes after an announcement of a 850 million dollar investment in October 2010 [4].

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