The GM plant in Shushary may get a second life

11 November 2018

After three years of idle GM Assembly plant near St. Petersburg found a new owner

 After a memorable demonstrative departure of GM from Russia, it remained on the territory of our country serious enough production capacity, in particular Assembly plant in St. Petersburg Shushary premise (the opening of which, by the way, November 7, 2008 was attended by then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev).
Annual capacity of this mothballed for three years. company, which collected the car brands Chevrolet and Opel, is 98 thousand cars in a single shift work and up to 230 thousand at maximum load. Directly before stopping the plant was upgraded by the Americans for three years, it brings its owner, i.e. General Motors some losses.

 it is Clear that so long endure overhead costs effective managers from overseas can not only that there was a steady rumors about the appearance (after a long search) the new owner of the enterprise. According to the St. Petersburg officials, he is not a foreign (although quite logical would be to purchase or even lease the GM factory of the Korean concern of the HMC, whose Assembly capacity is also located in the "St. Petersburg cluster" and are now working in three shifts, i.e. extremely overloaded, A. K.), and domestic. However, his name will be announced only after the closing of the transaction at the end of this year. it is hoped that the resumption of production in Shushary will lead to growth of the domestic automobile industry and the greater diversity offered on the mass market models.