Video game company Iron Galaxy to add at least 50 employees in downtown Orlando
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Stellantis supplier considers doubling plant footprint in Detroit
DETROIT — Dakkota Integrated Systems LLC is looking into expanding its manufacturing footprint in Detroit at a former high school site where the Stellantis supplier recently opened a plant.
Dakkota’s instrument panel assembly plant on the city’s east side spans 345,000 square feet on what once was the Kettering High School’s athletic field. The plan had also included demolishing the school buildings on the property for a plant double that size, but it never came to fruition.
Dakkota CEO Andra Rush told Crain’s Detroit Business, an affiliate of Automotive News, on Thursday that those plans are still in play.
“I would love to have some kind of purposeful and meaningful long-term opportunity on the Kettering school site,” Rush said after a media event at the plant. “From these products that we are assembling, major components that are coming offshore and onshore, we hope to find common components that we can manufacture not only for Stellantis or General Motors but Toyota, Honda …”
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