Auto supplier bringing 500 jobs to Detroit

In a three-party deal announced today, Ford moves a giant step closer to concluding a seven-year effort to dispose of its old auto components operations, while French auto supplier Faurecia expands its U.S. footprint and a new joint venture is formed in Detroit that brings 500 manufacturing jobs to the city.
“It’s a win-win-win that generates value for all the constituencies,” said Tony Brown, Ford’s group vice president for global purchasing. “Ford also is proud to play a role in helping to revitalize Detroit at this critical time for the city.”


As part of the deal, a joint venture called Detroit Manufacturing Systems [[DMS) is being formed by Faurecia and Rush Group Ltd., headed by Native American entrepreneur Andra Rush, whose other businesses include Rush Trucking in Wayne and Dakkota Integrated systems, an automotive trim joint venture near Lansing. Rush told the Free Press she hopes the DMS plant, 55% owned by Rush and 45% by Faurecia, will be producing vehicle parts by August. The plant at the Gateway Industrial Center on Detroit’s west side expect to employ about 500 when it ramps up production over the next few years.


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This should be bigger news, if these jobs were coming to downtown it'd be the top story in the papers instead of buried with other stories.

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In a three-party deal announced today, Ford moves a giant step closer to concluding a seven-year effort to dispose of its old auto components operations, while French auto supplier Faurecia expands its U.S. footprint and a new joint venture is formed in Detroit that brings 500 manufacturing jobs to the city.
“It’s a win-win-win that generates value for all the constituencies,” said Tony Brown, Ford’s group vice president for global purchasing. “Ford also is proud to play a role in helping to revitalize Detroit at this critical time for the city.”

As part of the deal, a joint venture called Detroit Manufacturing Systems [[DMS) is being formed by Faurecia and Rush Group Ltd., headed by Native American entrepreneur Andra Rush, whose other businesses include Rush Trucking in Wayne and Dakkota Integrated systems, an automotive trim joint venture near Lansing. Rush told the Free Press she hopes the DMS plant, 55% owned by Rush and 45% by Faurecia, will be producing vehicle parts by August. The plant at the Gateway Industrial Center on Detroit’s west side expect to employ about 500 when it ramps up production over the next few years.

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This should be bigger news, if these jobs were coming to downtown it'd be the top story in the papers instead of buried with other stories.

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Agreed.

Besides that, these are 500 new jobs that didn't exist before in Detroit [[versus 70 already occupied jobs which are just into a different room in the hotel) and this is a company that had absolutely no investment in Detroit until now.

There have been a lot of articles here in Ontario recently about how the area is losing its share of the global auto parts industry. Detroit seems to be holding on against Asian competitiors partly due to wage concessions. The jobs are welcome but the region's auto dependency appears as strong as ever.

And Faurecia just opened an engineering center in Sterling Heights a couple weeks back, wonder if those jobs are included in the 500.

Not sure why 500 jobs in Detroit's signature industry should be headline news? It's not a bad thing, and it's newsworthy, but it's also not headline news.

very good-- hopefully the jobs will be publicized.. I wonder how someone applies..

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Not sure why 500 jobs in Detroit's signature industry should be headline news? It's not a bad thing, and it's newsworthy, but it's also not headline news.

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It should be headline news because its a significant number of jobs and they will be IN the city, which in and of itself is pretty newsworthy. I like the fact that one of the people involved specifically said she wanted to expand in an underserved area, where jobs are really needed. Let's hope a fair number of Detroiters get hired.

I am not familiar with the Gateway Industrial Center, but I see its just south of the Rosedale Grandmont area. Nice to see investment there.