Automaker Stellantis is set to reopen its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, and ramp up production in Detroit, Michigan, instead of Canada after its chairman met with President Donald Trump just ahead of his Monday inauguration.
The manufacturer will produce the next-generation Dodge Durango SUV in Detroit as well as a “new midsize pickup truck” at the Belvidere Jeep plant, which was shut down in February 2023, the Detroit News reported Wednesday.
The Belvidere location employed about 5,000 people across three shifts in 2019, producing approximately 190,000 Jeep Cherokees that year before sales fell and two shifts were cut by 2022, the New York Times reported. When Stellantis, headquartered in the Netherlands, announced an “indefinite” closure of the plant, some 1,350 people were
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