New engines that will be produced at General Motors’ Town of Tonawanda engine plant will go into new versions of the automaker’s top-selling Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, as the manufacturing complex continues to step up its employment.
GM officials announced their plans for the new trucks Thursday, as well as GM Tonawanda’s prominent supporting role. The Tonawanda complex will be the lead supplier of three new engines for the trucks, as well as the only GM plant that produces all three of them, said Mary Ann Brown, a spokeswoman for the Tonawanda facility.
The engines, which will go into production in the first quarter of 2013, are part of a $400 million investment in GM Tonawanda announced in 2010. The plant is now seeing the payoff in the form of new jobs, as well, as it staffs up to fill new positions that were projected with the new work.