General Motors (GM) announced that it will channel an investment of one billion dollars (mdd) for its manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila. The aim is to open a new paint plant, but also to prepare the complex for the expansion of Assembly Plants and Global Propulsion Systems (GPS).

In this way, the firm will be able to produce electric vehicles in that Ramos Arizpe complex, being the fifth in North America to join Spring Hill, Tennessee; Factory Zero, in Detroit-HamTramck, Michigan; Orion, also in Michigan and CAMI in Ontario, Canada.

General Motors Ramos Arizpe has begun construction work on its new facilities within the Complex, where GM-brand electric vehicles will be produced starting in 2023.

Likewise, batteries and electrical components will be produced, beginning during the second half of 2021 with the manufacture of “Drive Units”, the propulsion system that powers electric vehicles.

According to Solili, industrial activity in the city of Saltillo presented a significant increase in demand for its vacant spaces and buildings that are still under construction, also adding a BTS building for the Philips company, which will be expanded during this year in just over 15 thousand square meters developed by Grupo Davisa.

This market reported a gross demand of 72 thousand square meters during the period January-March 2021 and most of it was concentrated in the Ramos Arizpe corridor.