Tag Archives: Michigan

Flint Michigan ponders bankruptcy

July 09, 2014   Guest Author

In a June 12, 2014 photo in Flint, Mich., the skyline of the city is seen from the west side. As Detroit hopes to ride out of bankruptcy this year, a smaller Michigan city with a similarly strong bond to the automotive industry soon could drive in. Flint, like its bankrupt big brother an hour’s drive south, has suffered a spectacular drop in population and factory jobs with a corresponding rise in property abandonment and crime. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

By JEFF KAROUB

As Detroit struggles to climb out of bankruptcy, another Michigan city with strong ties to the auto industry may be about to fall into the same hole.

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GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan

June 30, 2014   Neville

GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan

General Motors is increasing its renewable energy use with 3 acres of new solar arrays at two Michigan facilities. The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. That is equivalent to the annual energy use of 25 homes.

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Ford Fusion plant in Michigan to shut extra week in December

November 30, 2013   admin

Fusion inventories increased to an 88-day supply as of Nov. 1 from a more ideal 65 days a month earlier. A year ago, Ford had just 48 days' worth of Fusions on hand.

Just three months after Ford started production of the Fusion mid-sized sedan at a second North American plant to keep up with demand, it already has more supplies of the car than it needs.

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