Is it different this time? Parts suppliers locating manufacturing in Detroit

[renf]

When Governor Milliken and Mayor Young were promoting the erection of GM's Detroit Hamtramck assembly plant several decades ago, they suggested that one of the benefits would be that quite a few parts manufacturers would locate nearby thereby boosting employment in Detroit and Hamtramck. That did not happen. There was a new building constructed adjacent to the Hamtramck assembly plant but it was for incarceration.

Stellantis invested upwards of $3.3 billion in remodeling the Jefferson North plants and building a new assembly plant for the three bench Jeep Cherokee. Dakkota Integrated Systems from Brighton purchased the nearby abandoned Kettering high school and spent $55 million reconfiguring that site for the manufacture of interior components for Jeeps. Next Lear purchased the former Cadillac stamping plant on Conner and is erected a new building for the production of parts for the plants at Jefferson North. What is different now? Will we
soon see someone establishing a parts plant at Southwestern High School or other similar large but underutilized building in and near Detroit?

[313WX]

What's different this time?

*Far less NIMBY pushback, since so much of the city is abandoned and destitute.

*A much more desperate and downtrodden work force, since labor unions have just been battered long since the 1980s.

*Much cheaper and more available land for the sprawling greenfield developments that companies desire for modern assembly plants.

*An administration that doesn't have the polarizing [[even if completely understandable) social justice baggage that Coleman Young did.

*Serious plans in motion to modernize and expand I-94 to accommodate higher freight traffic volume.

[401don]

I know nothing about this but will put my 2 cents in anyway. Obviously, electric vehicles need fewer parts and far less moving parts mean less replacement in existing vehicles so that goes on the minus side. On the plus side, the recent shortage in chips as well as all kinds of components and raw materials, has led companies to rethink the global supply chain so even though a supplier may not need to be adjacent a plant the automakers may want more suppliers in North America.

[Richard]

Ford is having a record year despite all of the delays,everybody will do what they have done in the past,once this blip is over with it will be business as usual until the next blip,it is profitable for them,shortages create demand,demand comes with higher prices.

Not sure if it is still the same but the auto manufacturers in the south wanted suppliers from Michigan to set up shop close to them,but they said no,tool n die makers were getting big bucks to fly down there for service calls.

The logistics of transportation is what saves the dollars and adds to the bottom line,even more so when you have a truck that will have to stop every 100 miles to charge the batteries in the future.,horse n wagon would probably be faster.

Henry Ford was the smart one,in direct control of you finished product from raw materials to drive away,nobody could mess with his supply chain when he controlled it.

We already know once EVs gain traction,the foreign market will destroy the US manufacturers like they did in the past.

The world’s largest automotive market, China, is looking to become a dominant player in the rising global electric vehicle market. Chinese EV manufacturers are expected to start expanding overseas, while Beijing already controls a large part of the global EV supply chain, beginning with critical minerals processing.
The United States has started to realize that China could dominate the future of transportation—electric transportation—if it does not counter the current Chinese influence over critical parts of the EV supply chain, from battery metals sourcing and processing to battery manufacturing.

https://www.greencarcongress.com/202...-oilprice.html

All we are doing is buying Chinas trinkets by the billions and funding our own demise.

Chinese is a hard language to learn,maybe they should start teaching it in grade school now so future generations can ask for their daily bowel of rice in the proper language.

It does not matter how many trillions we throw at EVs and new factories,it is written right there in black and white,we have zero control over the market,it does not matter how good of a game we talk.

China controls a large part of the EV supply chain, analysts say. It is a common misconception that China holds most of the natural resources—in fact, 23 percent of global supply of all battery raw materials comes from China, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. However, China dominates chemical production of battery-grade raw materials with a whopping 80 percent of total global production. China will host a total of 101 lithium-ion battery plants currently planned or under construction to 2029 out of all 136 plants planned globally by that date, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence said.
China controls 80 percent of the world’s raw material refining in the lithium-ion battery supply chain, 77 percent of the world’s cell capacity, and 60 percent of the world’s component manufacturing, BNEF said in a report last month.


It’s like we are living in the twilight zone of saving the planet with the EV bandwagon,that right there tells you all China has to do is sell the materials to the US manufacturers at a higher cost which puts them in a position of dictating the market,the US manufacturing sector cannot even come close to competing with them.

So we get to spend trillions setting up the infrastructure to convert over to EVs,so they can walk in and take it over.

People thought it was comical when somebody mentioned buying Greenland,to late now,we made our bed and get the pleasure of laying in it at the cost of the country.

I think it is good that these places are picking Michigan and Detroit,just remember,all of those vacant factories that are there now,were also once viable businesses,until they to were not,even if it is a short run,one would hope the added revenue base is used to diversify into something more diversified,remember what happens when all the eggs are in one basket.

All it took was a stroke of a pen to destroy cities,it’s bad enough when it is our own politicians doing it,even worse when it is a foreign government,do not give them that chance.

We as consumers have to stop funding our demise,we need more of these factories,employing Americans that are building products for Americans,if we do not,20 - 30 years down the road
our puppet government will be answering to China and not us,it does not matter what way we lean politically at the end of the day,we all sink or swim together.

We do not have a problem with burning cities to the ground,when it comes time to build them back up,everybody walks away,we already lost California.

This is the one thing that creates a common bond with every American no matter what race color or creed if we do not demand better we cannot bitch about the scraps that are thrown our way.

It is happening in Canada and other countries across the world,some countries are recognizing it and taking steps to regain lost ground,the UK with Brexit for example,they are not doing it to be anti global,they are doing it because there are a few that want to be in total control of global trade,which gives them the power to dictate and control economy’s,we need to take our economy back for Americans.

[Satiricalivory]

It's great to see old industrial sites re-utilized with new facilities. The Cadillac site is big win no matter how you look at it. And that area is heavily populated so a supposed lack of NIMBYism has nothing to do with it. If anything the most depopulated neighborhoods have the worst NIMBYs living there. Somebody clearly doesn't know this city anymore lol.