GM's Lordstown factory goes dark as automaker closes underused plants
After 52 years of cranking out more than 16 million new vehicles, the General Motors assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, is shutting down.
As Americans have gravitated to trucks and SUVs and turned away from cars, GM CEO Mary Barra is adjusting the automaker's footprint by ending production at five plants in the U.S. and Canada and cutting 14,000 jobs. Lordstown is the first plant to close under this new plan. Not a big surprise since the plant only made the slow-selling Cruze sedan and GM is looking to shed some of the company's unused capacity.
Last year, GM's capacity utilization rate in North America was among the worst in the industry at 73 percent. Ford's factories were producing at 82 percent of capacity, Fiat Chrysler's were working 90 percent, Honda at 91 percent and Toyota at 93 percent, according to LMC Automotive.
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