Lansing Grand River plant's milestone 'means confidence'

The Lansing State Journal recounts the history of the General Motors Co.'s first assembly plant opened in more than a decade twelve years ago.

According to excerpts from the article: 
 

The plant was more flexible, more robotic, than any other factory in the Detroit automaker’s lineup at the time — including four others in and around the city that wouldn’t survive the decade. It was modeled after GM’s own plants overseas, which were more innovative than those in North America and not organized under the powerful auto unions of the United States and Canada.